Anxiety Quotes

Standing alone, walking my own path. Rearranging my thoughts. Pushing worries away. Climbing out of the fog, towards freedom of mind.

A mentoring nurse to new doctors: "Check your own pulse first.

Equally as therapeutic was the fact that disaster did not come.

If you're afraid of heights, lean over a railing. If you're afraid of germs, lick a floor. But what do you do if your greatest fear is of being afraid?

What delicious abandon in the sleep of the child. Where do we lose it?

For our anxiety is the one thing we cannot place on the shoulders of others, it suffocates them.

You must teach me the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters.

A man may follow vanity as truly in the counting-house as in the theatre. If he be spending his life in amassing wealth, he passes his days in a vain show.

We will have to work hard to rest.

We live in the tension between neophillia, or attraction to new things, and neophobia, or fear of new things.

I always thought a shipwreck was a well-organized affair, but I've learned the devil a lot in the last five minutes.

During World War I, Germany had only 25 of its vaunted submarines sailing at any one time.

She became an illusion of herself. It was easier to cope with people that way

I tried to write how I felt. The pen remained frozen. The paper stayed white and empty, while my brain was dark and full

I will not allow anxiety dictate the terms of my life

Worried moonI'm afraid of what's to comeWorried moonYeah, tell me what you knowWorried moonYou see further down the roadWorried moon

Jesus takes the chaos of the world upon Himself.

He had to pause for his usual misgivings.

You can't bluff an old theologian. Linus

It was an undemanding job both physically and mentally, which was fine. Stress was for the rich and hard-working.

It's because the door hasn't been closed yet that the nightmares still find their way in.

My compulsive thoughts aren't even thoughts, they're absolute certainties and obeying them isn't a choice.

A sure way to have someone crushed by their doubt is to preach a sermon on how to remove your doubt.

Which sort of shows why my body is an idiot, because forced narcolepsy is pretty much the worst defense ever.

The conviction that's underneath a lot of other statements is, "I don't trust Gjod.

Fury reigns down on those who ignore in the wisdom of fear itself.

He is now judging himself, harshly, by his captors' rules.

Because we have only one (life) we go about blundering along him nervous haste.

If someone wants to be in your life they will find you. If they don't they will find an excuse.

Faith enables you to hold on loosely without letting go.

You're so haunted by other people's futures that you forget, the only future you cannot see is your own.

You have to let go before you can reach.

And if I talk to him, I'll say something wrong, give something away. I can feel it coming, a betrayal of myself.

Thoughts were zipping around my head like fireflies in a jar, bumping into each other, blinking on and off.

stress is not stress until we experience it in our bodies and have a physiological reaction in our bodies.

The more you rationalize, the more you move farther away from your authentic self.

A man without fear cannot be a slave.

No amount of regret can change the past. No amount of anxiety can change the future.

the prospect of beginning a third- act career scared me almost as much as it attracted me.

Sometimes I don't have enough energy to be social. I need time alone to recover from the last time I went out.

When my anxiety is really bad, the fast beating of my heart makes my body feel like it rocks back and forth.

And if she had appeared, would I have dared to speak to her?

Men in their position cannot afford to seem anxious about anything. You know that’s a sign of weakness.

The need for control always comes from someone that has lost it.

Water is peaceful. I am at rest. In the water, I am safe and pulled in where I can't get out. Everything slows down-the noise and the racing of my thoughts.

If I can trust the word of a friend, why do I question the word of the God of the universe? Go figure. Sin is truly bizarre." [Running Scared, p. 111]

I did my best parenting by prayer. I began to speak less to the kids and more to God. It was actually quite relaxing.

I admit that at times my prayer for my children is nothing more than vocalized unbelief aimed at God.

I struggled with insecurity because I was trying to find my security in things. But when I began serving God with all my heart, my security was in Him.

No power on earth, if it labours beneath the burden of fear, can possibly be strong enough to survive.