Anxiety Quotes

As you kind of get over the anxiety about [science and evolution], it actually adds to your sense of awe about this amazing universe that we live in, it doesn't subtract from it at all.

Writing a book is the most difficult, anxiety-prone aspect of my life because the words that I put on paper are very serious to me.

Imagine wave after wave of joy passing through your whole body. As each wave passes through your body, feel that all worries, tensions, anxieties and problems are being washed away.

At the beginning of a meditation session your thoughts will be relatively earthbound. You will think about yourself, your world, problems, difficulties and anxieties.

When you are not meditating, eliminate hate, doubt, fear, anxiety, negative thoughts and emotions that limit your consciousness, that bind you to a sense of self, of ego.

The path of love has many opponents - fear, self-pity, anxiety, hate, lust, greed, avarice - all the usual freinds.

All our anxieties relate to time.

Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.

The anxiety of falling in love could not find repose except in bed.

Learn the lesson of your pain

Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say

He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself.

But away from the rituals of Washington, alongside the elation of [Donald] Trump supporters, there is deep anxiety, anger and fear.

I'm a firm believer in anxiety and the power of negative thinking.

Many of the snarly bad-tempered teachers whom we remember with hatred were really nice people soured by years of anxiety and penny-pinching.

Act the way that you want to feel.

When I finally got to 30, I'll admit that there was a little anxiety, but at the same time I actually really liked it.

Literature is achieved anxiety.

Most people live somewhere on the spectrum of anxiety and depression.

When anxiety disrupts functioning, it's psychiatric illness.

What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way.

All Americans suffer from anxiety; it's a national disease.

The incessant anxiety and strain of some is a well-nigh incurable form of disease. We are made to exaggerate the importance of what we do; and yet how much is not done by us!

The fear of doing right is the grand treason in times of danger.

Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.

Anxiety prepares the organism badly for an ordeal which even under more favorable circumstances would not be an easy thing to bear.

The happier a man, the more apt he is to tremble. In hearts exclusively tender, anxiety and jealousy are in exact proportion to happiness.

Twixt hope and fear, anxiety and anger.

any writer is inevitably going to work with his own anxieties and desires. If the book is any good it has got to have in it the fire of a personal unconscious mind.

I think Black intellectuals see too deeply. That's the problem. It's a cause of anxiety, because we see things differently.

True friendship must be akin to romance, I think. only without all the anguish and anxiety.

Problem is that my athletic abilities in my mind are greater than what my body can accomplish. And my level of fear and anxiety of getting injured is greater than my courage.

[Rumors are a] vehicle for anxieties and aspirations that may not be openly expressed.

If you read Keats's poems, they're often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tough.

Growing up, I was prone to anxiety.

I know content-wise I leave nothing to chance. I have no anxiety about what I'm going to do once I'm out on stage.

Its quite pretentious, really, isnt it? The notion the audience is going to be interested in you for an hour and a half. Think too much about that and anxiety takes over.

Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain.

Symptoms like anxiety, depression, aggression, alcohol or drug use, are responses to physical and emotional pain that has its roots in traumatic experiences from childhood and later in life.

The humming of my parents' voices from behind my bedroom wall, which throughout my childhood had filled me with a sense of security, had now become a source of anxiety and panic.

No one of us is less treasured or cherished of God than another. I testify that he loves each of us--insecuritie s, anxieties, self-image, and all.

When anxiety drives our decisions, we cannot grow spiritually, emotionally, or mentally. When we open up our hearts and give to others, we give ourselves room to grow and thrive!

Being thin created intense anxiety that I wouldn't be able to maintain that weight for life, and I couldn't.

The minute I feel nervousness or anxiety or fear, I go, 'No, no, that's not a thought that I need to have right now. Everything's great, everything's good, you're going to be fine'.

When an older writer tries to tell a younger writer through a review what kind of career she should be pursuing, it tends to speak to the reviewer's anxieties rather than the book itself.

I think I prioritize other people's opinions of me very highly, which is not necessarily a good thing - it's a thing that causes a lot of anxiety.

I always like being surprised and sort of caught off guard by other people's work. So it doesn't cause me any anxiety to explore different avenues.

I think that time moves slower in painting. And maybe that accounts for a lot of the anxiety around painting in the last 40 or 50 years.

Stress is something that is sort of out of your control. You get stressed out over looking at the finish line. Stress is something that is an outside thing. Stress is an anxiety.

I am helping people maybe scrape off some of the old stuff that has been put upon us that has taken us from being genius's to not feeling great about ourselves by having doubts, fears and anxieties.