Quotes About Anxiety

I turned anxiously, looking for him so that I could give him a giant hug. yet, as my eyes searched the room, it wasn't Adrian's face I suddenly found myself looking into. It was Robert Doru's. And Victor Dashkov was with him.

What's going to happen to us?

How do you know when God is at the center of your life? When God is at the center, you worship. When he's not, you worry.

What should you pray about? Everything! Here's a simple rule: If it's worth worrying about, then it is worth praying about. If you prayed as much as you worry, you would have a whole lot less to worry about.

Although dynamism and rapid change are all around us, people are not very effective when facing extreme uncertainty—it tends to be paralyzing.

I will not pretend I wasn't petrified. I was. But mixed in with the awful fear was a glorious feeling of excitement. Most of the really exciting things we do in our lives scare us to death. They wouldn't be exciting if they didn't.

the world is a scary place for such a small child

If you can think of anything more terrifying than that happening to you in the middle of the night, then let's hear about it.

What if they come after us?' said Mr Bucket, speaking for the first time.

It's the voices in your head that speak doubt and insecurity and fear and anxiety. Like a tape that's jammed on repeat, these destructive messages will drain an extraordinary amount of your energies if you aren't clear and focused and grounded.

Worry is lethal to thriving because it's a failure to be fully present. Worrying about something means you're there, not here

Veronica's hands wouldn't stop shaking. She held the revolver straight out from her body and breathed slowly, deeply, the hot-metal smell stinging her nostrils. She tried to relax her shoulders.

Anyone who'd spent a childhood waiting for the other foot—or the other fist—to fall knew how to sense danger.

their anxiety, justified or not, was genuine

I was no fool; I was aware that when another man is too anxious to force money on one, it is time to examine the cards, for there is almost certainly something illegal, or dangerous, or both, involved in the matter.

A man can face known danger. But the unknown frightens him. We

I always get the shakes before a drop.

Jill tried to reswallow her stomach.

When one has grown strong and wise enough, the warring elements which cost so much suffering and anxiety, will become complementary elements and produce the great work of art which is your own life.

Bio-survival anxiety will only permanently disappear when world-wide wealth has reached a level, and a distribution, where, without totalitarianism, everyone has enough tickets.

In spying-and-hiding transactions, worry leads to more worry and suspicion leads to more suspicion. The very act of participating, however unwillingly, in the secret police game — even as victim, or citizen being monitored — will eventually produce all the classic symptoms of clinical paranoia.

and their stern Father God demands endless sacrifices, offers no joy on earth but only duty blindly obeyed, and threatens sadistic tortures (for an infinite number of years, according to some theologians) to anyone who crosses him. It almost seems as if history, at least in the Occident, repeats the pattern Freud found in the nursery, from oral bliss to anal anxiety.

The results are astonishing. Over 70 percent of all dysfunctioning couples – where one or both have not had an orgasm in years – often achieve climax within two weeks after starting this Tantric program. The explanation, according to Dr. Masters, is that anxiety about orgasm is the principal cause of failure, and once the anxiety is removed, the natural happens by itself, spontaneously – tsu-jan, "of its own nature," as a Taoist would say.

Concretely, a modern man or woman doesn't look for biosurvival security in the gene-pool, the pack, the extended family. Bio-survival depends on getting the tickets. "You can't live without money," as the Living Theatre troop used to cry out in anguish. If the tickets are withdrawn, acute bio-survival anxiety appears at once.