Category Anxiety
Here are some quotes related to anxiety along with the authors’ names:
“Anxiety’s like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you very far.” – Jodi Picoult
“Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.” – Arthur Somers Roche
“Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.” – Swedish proverb
“What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?” – Thomas à Kempis
“Worrying is carrying tomorrow’s load with today’s strength — carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn’t empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.” – Corrie ten Boom
“Chronic anxiety is a state more undesirable than any other, and we will try almost any maneuver to eliminate it. Modern man is living in anxious anticipation of destruction. Such anxiety can be easily eliminated by self-destruction. As a German saying puts it: ‘Better an end with terror than a terror without end.” – Robert E. Neale
“Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest taken between two deep breaths.” – Etty Hillesum
“Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.” – Kahlil Gibran
“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.” – Marcus Aurelius
“Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Don’t assume I’m weak because I have panic attacks. You’ll never know the amount of strength it takes to face the world every day.” – Unknown
“Just because I can’t explain the feelings causing my anxiety doesn’t make them less valid.” – Lauren Elizabeth
“Worrying about outcomes over which I have no control is punishing myself before the universe has decided whether I ought to be punished.” – Unknown
“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.” – Virginia Woolf
“Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.” – Natalie Goldberg
“I just give myself permission to suck…I find this hugely liberating.” – John Green
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” – Epictetus
“Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.” – Anonymous proverb
“We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.” – David Mamet
“How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.” – Thomas Jefferson
“Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.” – Walter Anderson
“Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.” – Charles Spurgeon
“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” – Soren Kierkegaard
“Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.” – William S. Burroughs
“You cannot always control what goes on outside, but you can always control what goes on inside.” – Wayne Dyer
“Not everything that weighs you down is yours to carry.” – Anonymous
“Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.” – Plato
“Do what you can, with what you’ve got, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.” – Anonymous
“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.” – Paulo Coelho
“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.” – Deepak Chopra
“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.” – Anais Nin
“As long as you are breathing, there is more right with you than wrong with you, no matter what is wrong.” – Jon Kabat-Zinn
“Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges. So relax.” – Bryant McGill
“Trust yourself. You’ve survived a lot, and you’ll survive whatever is coming.” – Unknown
“Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths.” – Charles Spurgeon