Anxiety Quotes

Once I was beset by anxiety but I pushed the fear away by studying the sky, determining when the moon would come out and where the sun would appear in the morning.

When in haste, rest in the present. Take a deep breath and come back to here and now.

Character begins to form at the first pinch of anxiety about ourselves.

The anxiety around such work [vulnerably written ethnographies] is that it will prove to be beyond criticism, that it will be undiscussable.

We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

Nothing marks so much the solid advancement of a soul, as the view of one's wretchedness without anxiety and without discouragement.

Growth can be painful, change can be painful but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow it only empties today of it strengths

Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity.

I made things a lot harder than they needed to be out of fear and anxiety.

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.

Anxiety and gratitude cant live in the same head

Worry is like rocking in a rocking chair all day, because it keeps you busy but gets you nowhere.

Americans are suffering so much from being in unrewarding environments that it has made us very cynical. I think that American suburbia has become a powerful generator of anxiety and depression.

Because it is possible to create - creating one's self, willing to be one's self - one has anxiety. One would have no anxiety if there were no possibility whatever.

I deal with misunderstood aspects of animal behaviour like anxiety and aggression. I teach people how to respect different species and let a dog be a dog.

Papa's love did indeed have wondrous properties: it not only compensated for her boredom and anxiety, it was the cause of her boredom and anxiety.

The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God.

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

Theatre should be a taxing experience: the greatest achievement of a writer is to produce a character who creates anxiety.

Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this.

Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his [mankind's] ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.

Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.

While doubt cannot be expelled, it can be subdued.

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?

When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.

Now is the age of anxiety.

Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating disorders develop.

We are living in a new age of energy supply anxiety.

I finally understand that it’s okay to be a little afraid of things but that obsessing over them does not mean you have any more control over what you fear.

If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.

Release all the anxiety that keeps you from moving ahead. Keep breathing it out and letting it go.

We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear.

When I was young, I was just about hard work. But as I got older, I did experience anxiety, doubt, judgment, and it's so easy to lose yourself for a second.

Sufficient to each day are the duties to be done and the trials to be endured. God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on the top of them.

No one who is in a state of fear or sorrow or tension is free, but whosoever is delivered from sorrows or fears or anxieties is at the same time delivered from servitude.

In the depth of the anxiety of having to die is the anxiety of being eternally forgotten.

Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!

Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.

You sit here for days saying, this is a strange business. You're the strange business. You have the energy of the sun in you, but you keep knotting it up at the base of your spine.

[Debt] It has driven thousands to drink, and the worry and anxiety it has created have literally taken the lives of many of our ablest men. It has prostrated individuals, enterprises and nations.

Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness.

I think it's true that the 1 Percent or the elite are living in a world of, maybe, excessive privilege, and they don't fully realize how much pain and suffering, how much anxiety exists out there.

If I hazard a guess as to the most endemic, prevalent anxiety among human beings-including fear of death, abandonment, loneliness-nothing is more prevalent than the fear of one another.

Mum and dad were very much friends, and up to life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up, they just taught me to be me.

One of the by-products of being a perfectionist and constantly trying to improve myself are sobering feelings of low-grade anxiety and a nagging sense of inadequacy This anxiety keeps me humble.

Forgive yourself for believing that youre anything less than beautiful.

In an underdeveloped society, the first anxiety is of infant mortality. In an advanced one it is to keep alive the aged.

Every day I pray. I yield myself to God and the tensions and anxieties go out of me and peace and power come in.