Anxiety Quotes
Stop shying away from people. If you actually took a moment to listen to what they have to say, they might just say something that will change your life.
That kind of monotony that running generates - the one soundtracked by heavy breathing and the steady rhythm of feet on pavements - became a kind of metaphor for depression.
One cliche attached to bookish people is that they are lonely, but for me books were my way out of being lonely.
You need to set yourself up for success, too. You need to invest in yourself. You need to stop being a butthead and sabotaging yourself.
Everyday feels the same and yet I crave sameness.Part of me wants to run away and be free.I feel trapped in my life I've created to protect myself.
It is human, to want to feel connected with others, to strive for a sense of belonging.Yet the ultimate hack is is to belong with yourself.Once you belong within, You belong with all.
Even your little sorrows you may roll upon God, for He counteth the hairs of your head.
The price for being intelligent enough to be the first species to be fully aware of the cosmos might just be a capacity to feel a whole universe’s worth of darkness.
Until the coming of another day of fear, they walked in silence with bowed heads.
the greatest cruelty of madness is the power it has to blot out a person.
God only knew what ran underneath the fierce self-discipline and emotional control that had come with my upbringing. But the cracks were there, I knew it, and they frightened me.
Don't let anxiety, depression and other mental illnesses ruin your life, be brave and face the day ahead of you
Friends are the real superheroes. They battle our worst enemies—loneliness, grief, anxiety, depression, fear, and doubt—every time they come around.
Cast the burden of the present along with the sin of the past and the fear of the future upon the Lord.
Most of your unhappiness in life comes from the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself.
Even when everything's going your way you can still be sad. Or anxious. Or uncomfortably numb. Because you can't always control your brain or your emotions even when things are perfect.
A scar had been beaten into his mind which would only heal by experience.
Nobody would believe what an effort it is to do what little I am able, - to dress and entertain, and order things
At the fall, we became alienated not only from God and other people but also from ourselves.
Each time that I have felt like I might finally be figuring some things out, life has decided to change the rules and I’ve had to start all over again.
That was the crux. You. Only you could work on you. Nobody could force you, and if you weren't ready, then you weren't ready, and no amount of open-armed encouragement was going to change that.
You have the chief spark of your health's fire, for you have true knowledge of the hand that guides the universe.
Preaching a man a sermon with a broken head and telling him to be right with God is equal to telling a man with a broken leg to get up and run a race.
My life felt so cluttered and obstructed that I could hardly breathe. I inhabited a closed, concentrated world, airless and without exits.
I would if somebody would want to but of course nobody would want to so I wouldn't want to force anybody to want to.
I know what it's like to sleep in fear, to starve myself to be worthy, to be ashamed of my voice, to want to sleep forever. To question why I deserve to live.
I name you today, heart fears. I am small, but you are smaller. You will not stop me. You have a voice, fears, and I must listen, but then I will open my heart. I will love you right to death.
I've had a lot of therapists, so I've had the opportunity to approach my fear in many different ways. I've faced it head on and sideways and tried to tiptoe up behind it.
In our circle, stress was a valuable status marker: I stress, therefore I am.
Alcohol has its own well-know defects as a medication for depression but no one has ever suggested - ask any doctor - that it is not the most effective anti-anxiety agent yet known.
Lewis encourages his cancer-stricken and temporarily depressed wife that uncertainty rather than hopelessness is our cross.
Even now it comes as a shock if by chance I notice in the street a face resembling someone I know however slightly, and I am at once seized by a shivering violent enough to make me dizzy.
Show me what you've written, " I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it.
You're surrounded by people and voices and noises, but there you are, alone and trembling inside. And you want to be invisible. (thinking) Please, don't notice me.
She felt happy these days, yet there was always an undercurrent of sadness just below the surface
It felt like this was never going to end. The world wasn't going to stop crashing down until there was nothing left of me but dust.