Anxiety Quotes
I have social anxiety. It's easier up on stage because there's security in being there. When I'm off stage I'm trying not to be a manic freak. I'm quite shy.
Conditioned Awareness is where we live our lives in guilt over the past and anxiety over the future and never get to experience the present.
Today in May 1938, the world around us suffers from the anxiety which the unemployment of millions brings with it. In Germany we begin to be anxious because we have not enough workmen.
Anxiety comes into existence only when we become identified with small things. And they all pass.
After all, catching something is purely a by-product of our fishing. It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief, lightens all worry, dissolves fear and anxiety.
Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.
You have social media and the Internet and immigration and so, suddenly, cultures are clashing and people feel as if they're less familiar with the people around them. That causes social anxieties.
Now panic beats and flutters inside my skull like a flock of starlings locked in an attic.
Never have nights been more beautiful than these nights of anxiety. In the sky have been shining in trinity the moon, Venus and Mars. Nature has been more splendid than man.
Every tomorrow has two handles. You can take hold of the handle of anxiety or the handle of enthusiasm. Upon your choice so will be the day.
Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
The path to decision may be hard because it leads into the territory of both finiteness and groundlessness—domains soaked in anxiety.
If you're nervous about doing something, plan to do it badly, giving yourself credit for just doing it. That takes a weight off your shoulders because anyone can do something badly.
We are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like we have one.
You were my hope during my days of loneliness, my anxiety during moments of doubt, my certainty during moments of faith.
A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.
To be interested in something is to be involved in what is essentially a stressful relationship with that thing, to suffer anxiety on its behalf.
Don’t get depressed about not being where you want to be. This nagging feeling of anxiety is actually called ambition. Ambition is your friend.
The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.
I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack.
Perhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments - an inability to accept life as ongoing.
Anxiety may consist of the loss of psychological or spiritual meaning which is identified with one's existence as a self, i.e., the threat of meaninglessness.
Like a bird, when his cage is opened, stays on his perch, dazzled by freedom, the postponed traveler does not see that his cage, with its bars of anxiety, it is open.
You don’t experience anxiety unless you’re attached to a thought that isn’t true for you. It’s that simple.
If you want to understand entrepreneurs, you have to study the psychology of the juvenile delinquent. They don't have the same anxiety triggers that we have.
Anxiety is the illness of our age. We worry about ourselves, our family, our friends, our work, and our state of the world. If we allow worry to fill our hearts, sooner or later we will get sick.
Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it—just as we have learned to live with storms.
Excessive caution destroys the soul and the heart, because living is an act of courage, and an act of courage is always an act of love.
Her forehead was a maze of anxious little grooves, from a lifetime of wondering about whether everyone within range was OK.
It's sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age.
It is our work to cast care, and it is God's work to take care.
The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.
Worry is like rocking in a rocking chair all day, because it keeps you busy but gets you nowhere.
Every anxiety is a mild form of premonition, and from that point the shade deepens till we get the forebodings and hauntings that merge into lunacy.
