Anxiety Quotes
When I don't have something to worry about, I worry. Nothing comes so naturally to a human being as anxiety and worry.
He was agitated for some reason that he could not name. (page 35)
A sharp decline in actual deprivation may, paradoxically, have been accompanied by an ongoing and even escalating sense of fear of deprivation.
Your unconscious wants to express the pain you feel about your own lost innocence. But your ego wants to keep it repressed. To the compromise is anxiety.
This is how you explain how you feel: broken words and hard truths.
Many things can cause us to worry, but a kind word or deed can do wonders. Sometimes that's all we need to feel better.
The creeping sense that he might have seen him reading the book came up from the ground, but that was more anxiety than evidence.
I understand that your brain is large and perpetually at war with itself
When people think time is against them, they get a different feeling. No one however knows with all certainty, what exactly is in the next moment of time! Something can change!
Be thankful when you find yourself worrying about the smallest things, for it often means there aren't any bigger things to truly worry about.
As you enter, you pray to leave. As you leave, you pray to never return.
That was the problem with the outside world, the human world. The whole thing was made up puzzles, of a language she didn't quite speak.
Fixed mindset worries in the nest and the growth mindset dances on the edge.
Like I'm on the verge of just blowing up. All the stress and pressure and anxiety just bubbling up.
How much time is wasted in what is called thought, but is merely care--an anxious idling over the fancied probabilities of result
If a person does not satisfy the need to self-actualization, his satisfaction and anxiety increases
Panic attacks are a lot like being drunk in some ways, you lose self-control. You cry for seemingly no reason. You deal with the hangover long into the next day.
That's another sort of being haunted: starting something and never finishing it.
For me, concept of death works as a liberator from anxiety -- no matter whatever is happening, its all going to end when we die.
For one, dazzling, infinite moment, August felt like he was standing on a precipice, the end of one world and the beginning of another, a whisper and a bang.
When you are open to living and trust the process of life and ready to face all your fears, and not afraid to go astray with life, life definitely comes and talk to you, in its own language.
People-pleasers feel they must constantly be performing acts of service to others to gain acceptance. That requires a lot of work, effort, and energy. From the book: Removing Your Shame Label.
What starts out as an intrusive thought can turn into an overwhelming concept if we "feed" it with more negative thinking. From the book: Removing Your Shame Label.
Everything takes place at a right time. It’s your anxiety to achieve everything before time or grab things more than you required, add misery to your life.
I was brought up, ' Freddy informed him, 'not to suffer anxiety about decisive initiative of all types.
The plan is to start performing smaller venues and work my way up from there, this anxiety isn't going to get the better of me.
Attempting to succeed in a competitive external environment, we can lose track of how to live without anxiety.
Everything in us presses toward decision, even toward the wrong decision, just to be free of the anxiety that precedes any big step in life.
Nothing conquers the chaos around me like the calm assurance that I am at peace with God.
This is Long Island, land of the rushed, home of the stressed.
I'm the problem of anxiety we must, therefore, always ask the question of what vital value is being threatened
The threat of frustration of a biological urge does not cause conflict and anxiety unless that urge is identified with some value essential to the existence of the personality.
It struck me then, for the first time, how unethical anxiety is, how it voids the reality of other people by conscripting them as palliatives for your own fear.
This is the trouble with origin hunting. There are so many origins.
How do you fill the space between, "God says it, " and, "I believe it, "?
I listened to make sure I was meeting the minimum requirement to stay out of jail, so to speak.
Once in a while, he worries, but about what? Like the scattered clouds that drift over farmland in the afternoon, that sort of anxiety is what, ultimately?
My mother took the measure of what could be built with the material she'd been given, and she built it.
...as long as she was worrying about it, it probably wasn't going to happen. Like some sort of anxiety vaccine. Like watching a pot to make sure it never boiled.
Reputation became the pirates' sharpest sword.
Unbelief is a master carpenter at cross-making.