Anxiety Quotes

Abundance is a process of letting go; that which is empty can receive.

If people base their identity on identifying with authority, freedom causes anxiety. They must then conceal the victim in themselves by resorting to violence against others.

We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and the purest ideal.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception.

If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.

Skepticism relieved two terrible diseases that afflicted mankind: anxiety and dogmatism.

I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.

Earthly possessions dazzle our eyes and delude us into thinking that they can provide security and freedom from anxiety. Yet all the time they are the very source of anxiety.

There are three marks of a superior man: being virtuous, he is free from anxiety; being wise, he is free from perplexity; being brave, he is free from fear.

Happiness is such an incredible advantage in our life. When the human brain is positive, our intelligence rises, we stop diverting resources to think about anxiety.

By all means take thought for the tomorrow, yes, careful thought and planning and preparation. But have no anxiety.

If you're going to live in the anxiety of the surface of this world, you're never going to find the depth, the source. If you want calmness, you've got to go deeper.

The lens of fear magnifies the size of uncertainty.

Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.

Worry is worthless. It can't change the past or control the future. It only spoils the moment.

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

Mothers ought to bring up and nurse their own children; for they bring them up with greater affection and with greater anxiety, as loving them from the heart, and so to speak, every inch of them.

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

The origin of the conflict, frustration, and anxiety we experience does not lie in the nature of the world itself but in our distorted conceptions of the world.

You have to be able to cut off from the ballet and relax, or you have anxiety dreams at night, worrying about what you're going to dance the next day, going over every little detail.

The affirmation of one's essential being in spite of desires and anxieties creates joy.

Time spent in nature decreases stress and anxiety and improves focus for adults as well as children.

The best use of imagination is creativity. The worst use of imagination is anxiety.

Worry is a weighty monster with poisoned tentacles. It clutches at us, grabs at our minds, steals our breath, our will. It lurks. It pounces. It colors how we perceive the world.

The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.

If anyone is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault... Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility except our own opinion.

Where faith begins, anxiety ends; where anxiety begins, faith end.

Riches bring anxiety; wisdom gives peace of mind.

Suspense is worst than disappointment.

Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.

Better be with the dead, Whom we to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy.

the demons that make a person afraid are the hardest to cast out.

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

The anxiety I feel when I'm late is nothing like the anxiety I feel when I'm on time.

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.

Anxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered in anything short of God and His will.

I think one thing that does cause unhappiness is protracted anxiety and worry.

Don't be forecasting evil unless it is what you can guard against. Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it into a defense.

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

The experience of separateness arouses anxiety; it is, indeed, the source of all anxiety.

In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

Hope . . . is one of the ways in which what is merely future and potential is made vividly present and actual to us. Hope is the positive, as anxiety is the negative, mode of awaiting the future.

For forty years I have play the oboe, and still I never know what is coming out. It is a perpetual anxiety. But maybe this is good-I have never the time to get myself bored.

Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.

The ancient Greek "oral poets" all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the muse to help them remember.

When I was 15 or 16 - I slept really well then. Now I sleep on a bed of anxiety-tipped nails.