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Quotes About Anxiety

The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
~ Irvin D. Yalom
When there's people on the other side of the room trying to wipe out your life and things are stacked against you, you can get nervous.
~ Jello Biafra
The stage is the place I feel comfortable - it's almost as if real life is where I feel most nervous. Conversations are a lot more nerve-wracking.
~ Florence Welch
A connection to Spirit restores your confidence, relieves your anxiety, and frees you from the desire to control everything in your life.
~ Sonia Choquette
The time to worrying about flying is when you're on the ground. When you're up in the air, it's too late. No point in worrying about it then.
~ Denzel Washington
Tranquilizers to overcome angst, pep pills to wake us up, life pills to ensure blissful sterility. I will lift up my ears unto the pills whence cometh my help.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge
The demoniacal powers know this and do all they can to push you to strain your mind. It can be strained by dwelling on one theme until it cannot see anything else clearly—or by worry, anxiety, or even excessive "thinking" as to what is the will of God.
~ Jessie Penn-Lewis
I learned years later that my gratitude practice actually helped me form new neural pathways. The hippie rituals of positive affirmations are not just baloney. Gratitude doesn't exist only in your mind—you have to feel it in your whole being. Feelings are the shadows of thoughts. When we have negative thoughts, our emotions mirror them with anxiety. You can often see what you are thinking by reverse engineering and studying your feelings.
~ Jewel
Feelings are the shadows of thoughts. When we have negative thoughts, our emotions mirror them with anxiety. You can often see what you are thinking by reverse engineering and studying your feelings.
~ Jewel
The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
The thing is, I was so bursting for the loo that I thought my bladder was going to explode. I could hardly speak, let alone make it up your stairs. When you threw the key down and I had to bend over to pick it up, I thought that was it, I was going to flood the road! And I'm not even exaggerating. I've never been so desperate in my life.
~ Jill Mansell
Pa gdje je ona Zo? Gdje je moje dijete?
~ Jilliane Hoffman
Ant 1: So, uh, do you ever worry that your itsy little neck is just going to snap under the weight of your head? Ant 2: Stop asking me that. You ask me that, like, every five minutes. Ant 1: Sometimes I notice my antennae out of the corner of my eye and I'm all, like: AHH! Something is on me! Get it off! Get it off! Ant 2: Yeah, the antennae again. Listen, I just remembered, I have to go walk around aimlessly now.
~ Jim Benton
The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.
~ Jim Bishop
Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.
~ Jim Bishop
The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outline of an old and worried face.
~ Jim Bishop
Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.
~ Jim Butcher
Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.
~ Jim Butcher
Blind panic might not work all the time, but at least it saved you the stress of planning.
~ Jim C. Hines
crushed between the fears of going forward and the dread of going back.
~ Jim Crace
On nights like this, when there is anxiety about, there is a glut of lovemaking. Then the moon is our dance master. He has us move in unison. He has us trill and carol in each other's ears until the stars themselves have swollen and ripened to our cries. As ever here, we find our consolations sowing seed.
~ Jim Crace
Only experience can refine a leader's art. High-uncertainty projects are full of anxiety, change, and ambiguity that the team must deal with. It takes a different style of project management, a different pattern of team operation, and a different type of project leader. I've labeled this type of management leadership-collaboration.
~ Jim Highsmith
relying on junk food for bursts of energy; smoking or drinking to manage anxiety; furiously multitasking to meet demands; setting aside more challenging, long-term projects in favor of what feels immediately pressing and easier to accomplish, and devoting little energy to personal relationships. The costs of these choices and many others only show up over time.
~ Jim Loehr
I run a good, honest establishment, so I'm not worried," she said, looking very worried.
~ Jim Murphy