Category Fear

Here are some insightful quotes about fear along with their authors:

“I’m not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” — Woody Allen
“Do one thing every day that scares you.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.” — Marianne Williamson
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” — Mark Twain
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” — Frank Herbert
“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.” — Harper Lee
“Becoming fearless isn’t the point. That’s impossible. It’s learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.” — Veronica Roth
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” — Paulo Coelho
“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.” — Bertrand Russell
“Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out.” — Karl Augustus Menninger
“Fear of a name only increases fear of the thing itself.” — J.K. Rowling
“It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.” — J.K. Rowling
“Most of the really exciting things we do in our lives scare us to death. They wouldn’t be exciting if they didn’t.” — Roald Dahl
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” — C.S. Lewis
“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.” — Jane Austen
“The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It’s our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows.” — Brené Brown
“We can’t be brave in the big world without at least one small safe space to work through our fears and falls.” — Brené Brown
“I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who had the courage to go forth into its expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst its perils.” — Charlotte Bronte
“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.” — Yoda
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Category Anxiety

Here are some insightful quotes about anxiety along with their authors:

“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 proverb1
“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
“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
“The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endangers him, not the storm without.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Worrying does not take away tomorrow’s troubles. It takes away today’s peace.” — Buddhist vision
“Not everything that weighs you down is yours to carry.” — Anonymous
“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.” — Seneca
“Some people still try to swim when they’re drowning. The trick is to simply stop struggling and breathe.” — Chris McGeown
“When you replace ‘Why is this happening to me?’ with ‘What is this trying to teach me?’ everything shifts.” — Unknown
“Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.” — The Buddha
“Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.” — Jack Kornfield
“Go easy on yourself. Whatever you do today, let it be enough.” — Unknown
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” — Epictetus
“You don’t have to be a victim of your past anymore. You are not your mistakes, and you are not your struggles.” — Nick Vujicic
“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
“Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.” — Charles Spurgeon
“How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.” — Thomas Jefferson
“Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.” — Walter Anderson
“Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.” — Plato
“You cannot always control what goes on outside, but you can always control what goes on inside.” — Unknown
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