Quotes About Anxiety

I know that I am the kind of person that gets a little bit more nervous than other skaters, but that's because I care for my skating very much. I take all my emotions with me. I can't go out and say 'Now, this is just my job.' I really care.

I've never been ice skating, ever. I'm traumatized by the idea of it.

I don't want to compete. I want to skate for the joy. I get so nervous in competition. I get always sick. I had pressures enough in my life from skating.

I think to be courageous, you have to be afraid. For me, it feels very courageous when I go skiing because I'm very, very afraid to ski. It's dangerous! I feel very scared. But when I'm acting, I don't feel very scared.

I've never had a particular skill. I can't cook, dance, play an instrument, speak a foreign language. This used to worry me. I'd think, when I'm grown up, at 18, then I made it 21, it will be clear what role I should have in life. It never happened. I never signed on the dotted line as the sort of adult my father wanted.

At certain points, I was afraid there was something - a missing chink of skill - that was going to prevent me from having a movie that was financially successful. That frightened me.

I have a little bit of PTSD when I hear a big bang or a loud noise or keys - I jump out of my skin.

I bite the skin on the side of my fingernails.

I was jumping out of my skin. It was horrible. I was all over the place, because I'd never been in front of a live audience. That's a whole other element in the play, the audience.

I feel like I want to crawl out of my skin, especially when people start questioning me.

There were times when I've not wanted to be in my own skin, and that's a very scary feeling.

It was hard to get guys to notice me, period, because I was so skinny and all my friends were curvy. Plus, I used to be very nervous in front of guys.

Love, Fear, and Esteem, - Write these on three stones.

Allow love to fill the places where anxiety now resides.

He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

What she wants to say has to do not only with joy but with the penetrating, constant fear that is joy's other half.

I'd love to interview Mick Jagger, but that might be scary.

Anxiety is love's greatest killer, because it is like the stranglehold of the drowning.

Love born of anxiety resembles a thorn shaped so that efforts to pull it out of one's flesh merely cause it to penetrate more deeply therein.

There are only two emotions. Love and fear.... Love and fear is all there is == Everything else is just an offshoot motivated by those two.

I love the little suckers; they're so cute. But I love sleep so much, and I worry about everything.

Love and fear are the two opposite ends of the continuum, as far as I'm concerned. When we are not in love, we are in fear.

... love and fear increase together with a precision almost mathematical: the greater the love is then the greater the fear is.

Never tell anyone to be careful, never ask what that noise was, and for the love of God, never, ever say that you'll be right back." —Evelyn Baker