Quotes About Anxiety

If worrying were an Olympic sport, you'd get the gold for sure.

The Internet is what you make of it, obviously . . . But the Internet has also been a great aggregator of anxiety and an enabler of our worst tendencies. It has allowed us to trumpet our own opinions, to win attention by broadcasting our laziest and cruelest judgments, to grind axes in public. It has made us feel, in some perverse sense, that we are entitled to do so.

When you're afraid or angry or anxiety-ridden you've essentially shut yourself off from God. That's the negative energy at work." "What

fear is the great motivator, isn't it?

Fear is nothing more than the dark side of thought, it has substance only in the mind. We create it, and we alone can destroy it.

Television is light filled with someone else's anxiety.

Nerves and butterflies are fine — they're a physical sign that you're mentally ready and eager. You have to get the butterflies to fly in formation, that's the trick.

Nerves and butterflies are fine - they're a physical sign that you're mentally ready and eager. You have to get the butterflies to fly in formation, that's the trick.

And I think that if I were a for real celebrity that was recognizable everywhere, I'd just crawl under a rock and you know, have someone run over the rock with a car, or something.

If you pray about it don't worry about it. If you're going to worry about it don't pray about it.

number one cause of failure in this country is the fear of failure. Fear paralyzes you from taking action.

the number one cause of failure in this country is the fear of failure. Fear

That might have a lot to do with it, but you know, I probably don't show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else.

It causes me great pain and anxiety to inflict fear on this poor old croc, but without me, he and his wilderness would suffer.

I promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems. Nothing is worth diminishing your health. Nothing is worth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and fear.

Attachment is the still water in which the mosquitoes of stress grow."

he was, sitting in a comfortable car, sweating blood because the man was ten minutes late. He

stress and emotional problems?

Attention is an alchemy that turns dullness to beauty and anxiety to ease.

Hmmm. Let's do this and see what happens. Say out loud, 'I can't stand up or I will have a panic attack,' and then while doing that, slowly stand up").

When you're in the closet, you feel like the sky will fall down if anyone finds out. A lot of the fear is self-generated.

I used to hate flying. I would sit there, rigid, convinced that if I relaxed, the plane would drop out of the sky.

Using phrases or mantras to encourage and comfort myself has been a powerful practice for me. For years, I would say to myself 'Remember the purple sky' when I was feeling anxious, which to me meant remember a sense of internal spaciousness and kindness toward myself.

I don't like the slasher stuff, myself, but I do like the psychological horror of Roman Polanski and that world. But, it's curious to me why people do like to be afraid.