Quotes About Anxiety

My God, you're like a med student. You hear of a new disease and five minutes later either you or the kids have it.

God, help me. I don't want to be afraid all the time. I['m tired of it. So tired of it.

The insides of our own minds are the scariest things there are.

My sheets had never been so clean as they had in the past few months. I hardly got them on again before something else happened and I was feverishly ripping them off and stuffing them in the wash with double amounts of soap and all the extra buttons pushed: extra wash, extra rinse, extra water, extra spin, extra protection against things that go bump in the night.

You can be a really nasty, selfish little jerk when you're scared enough. I was scared enough.

I have a mastery of the art of worrying that is a burden to me if I may not use it.

It's not silly at all. The insides of our own minds are the scariest things there are.

It's not silly at all. The insides of our own minds are the scariest things there are." Scarier than vampires?

he followed me with his eyes as if I wore a black hood and carried an axe, and he was next in line.

Worry drains the mindof its power and, sooner or later, it injures the soul

The only thing standing between most people and their dreams is the fear of failure.

As you rise toward virtuosity, you'll become anxious about failure, threatened by a concern of not being good enough and insecure about blazing new paths. So, your amygdala—an almond-shaped mass of gray matter in the brain that detects fear—gets all fired up. And you begin to tear down the productivity you've built up. We all have a subconcious saboteur that lurks within our weakest selves, you know?

Worrying about things beyond your control is a pretty good formula for illness.

Worrying about things beyond your control is a pretty good formula for illness. And most of the things we so concern ourselves with about never actually happen.

Preocuparse por cosas que no dependen de uno es una buena manera de ponerse enfermo.

most of us share the same fears: a fear of rejection, a fear of failure, a fear of not being good enough, a fear of being alone, a fear of losing control and a fear of success.

I've had a lot of trouble in my life, some of which actually happened.

Anxiety is caused by a lack of control, organization, preparation and action

Fear is nothing more than a mental monster you have created, a negative stream of consciousness.

It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear; about two, nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying; and two perhaps can be settled.

Fear is nothing more than a negative stream of consciousness?

Understand the anatomy of fear. It is your own creation. Most of the things we are afraid of never even happen. So why let your fears own your life?

La preocupación priva a la mente de gran parte de su poder y, antes o después, acaba dañando el alma.

Worry causes your precious mental energy and potential to leak, just like air leaking out of an inner tube.