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Quotes About Anxiety

Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.
~ Deepak Chopra
Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is primary, all else secondary.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity.
~ Thomas Merton
If I hazard a guess as to the most endemic, prevalent anxiety among human beings-including fear of death, abandonment, loneliness-nothing is more prevalent than the fear of one another.
~ R. D. Laing
Now anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity. It is the fruit of unanswered questions. But questions cannot go unanswered unless they first be asked.
~ Thomas Merton
Love eliminates fear. Love eliminates anxiety.
~ Lester Levenson
The craving to become causes fears; to be, to achieve, and so to depend engenders fear.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Worry is spiritual nearsightedness, a fumbling way of looking at little things, and of magnifying their value.
~ Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay
Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith.
~ Paul Brunton
Worrying is the greatest egoism!
~ Dada Bhagwan
Where there is religion (religious following), there are no worries and where there are worries, there is no religion there.
~ Dada Bhagwan
As one becomes increasingly unsteady (restless), one increases entanglements.
~ Dada Bhagwan
Worry is the greatest seed [cause] for the worldly life because worrying is the greatest egoism. If the egoism leaves, then worries will go away.
~ Dada Bhagwan
Worrying is like praying for crap!
~ Erin Fall Haskell
Is it not the disparity of wealth that consumes the willing soul. Rather, the golden keys of opportunity clamor softly with fraught anxiety of things which may never come.
~ Joel T. McGrath
Worry is the destroyer of understanding.
~ Dada Bhagwan
The worst thing to be afraid of is fear. Give yourself grace. – Jessica Willis
~ The Willis Clan
Anxiety and spiritual searching have been consistent themes with me, and that figures into my worldview. But I tend to make my songs sound like relationship songs.
~ David Bowie
Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket.
~ Lee Trevino
When I race my mind is full of doubts - who will finish second, who will finish third?
~ Noureddine Morceli
Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.
~ Sam Snead
I'm not afraid of anyone, but sometimes I'm afraid of myself. The mental part is very important.
~ Justine Henin
Golfers are the greatest worriers in the world of sport.
~ Billy Casper
Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
~ Floyd Patterson