Quotes About Anxiety

Secretly we fear ourselves, not the fear itself.

Stress comes from fear of the unknown, so have faith and fear will disappear and stress will melt away.

It's not natural to outlive your child. This has always been my greatest fear.

Although this scouting gig sounded like a financial hit, it made Nonie extremely nervous. She feared someone slip--that someone being Buggy--and others would find out Nonie's secret. And if the wrong person caught wind that she could see and speak to the dead, word would spread through Clay Point like ants at a picnic.

I confess that I am often lost in all the dimensions of time, that the past sometimes feels nearer than the present and I often fear the future has already happened.

Now he was fifty-six and the thought of getting to know a woman all over again filled him with a panic-stricken desolation.

The secret to not being afraid is to understand what scares you

There is no stricter moralist than Fear; and no moralist is a stranger to Fear.

Nature is infinite innovation and beauty that never repeats itself. Only man-made artifacts are endlessly repetitious, which is a principal reason our lives are so boring, full of anxiety and devoid of meaning.

Luke hadn't been nervous when he'd disarmed a cold-eyed gunslinger in an El Paso saloon. Nor when he'd charged the hideout of the notorious Miller Gang. Nor when he'd single-handedly subdued a mob. But as he tied Honey Dew to Georgie's hitching post, his hands shook, his forehead beaded with sweat, and his mouth went dry. He blew out a long breath. It was just a woman. And she was tiny as a cricket bug.

Sometimes fear cannot be distinguised from excitement.

Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.

The ego wants to acquire things out of insecurity, out of a sense of lack. Remind yourself that everything comes and goes except the soul. It's from the soul that a person gains a sense of inner fulfillment. The soul lacks nothing and therefore has no anxiety about the outside world: gain is not a need, loss is not a threat.

The best use of imagination is creativity. The worst use of imagination is anxiety.

You do not allow these to flow, which is to say to be released; therefore, they have no choice but to stagnate. Good impulses die for lack of being acted on. Love grows timid and afraid when not expressed. Hatred and anxiety loom larger than life.

Any decrease of anxiety is a step toward love.

Resulta trágicamente irónico que el mismo cerebro que es capaz de conquistar el miedo pueda también someternos a los miedos que atormentan nuestras vidas.

Being the monarch of fear, you've forgotten how to be afraid yourself.

Psychologically, stress results whenever anxiety about the future or regrets about the past are invoked.

Depression and anxiety are associated with increased risk for exercise-induced heart attacks. In contrast, greater levels of positive emotions are associated with decreased risk. Being heart healthy is important. But in our whole-system approach, the physical organ is only part of the story. The other part has to do with one's attitudes and outlook.

and dreaming about tomorrow was pure escapism from the pain we fear today. Note: from the introduction written by Chopra in The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts.

How can you tell when your ego is getting in the way of your dreams? There are many clues, but the most important is anxiety. Whenever your self or your spirit is overshadowed by your self-image or your ego, you feel anxiety.

Cate felt that just by looking at them, people might have guessed that something was wrong, that something had frightened them; and that fear was like a wire which connected them with each other and isolated them from everyone else.

The anatomy of what happens to each of us is shadowed and affected by what came before, and I was conditioned as a child to live with fear and worry.