Quotes About Anxiety

Learning to sit with ambiguity can be a very important start at a life liberated from anxiety—and the way to do it is to resist the urge to chase answers to questions that may actually be unanswerable.

We begin to worry about worry and fear fear itself. We panic and then panic that we might, once again, experience panic.

anxiety is out of place in the present moment. It depends on the past and the future for its existence. This understanding matters if you hope to let go of your struggle with anxiety.

that anxiety has at its core disquietude caused by ambiguity and a strong inclination toward problem solving. When

The unnerving possibility of one's own madness is preferable to the still more unnerving one of supernatural agency disrupting known, familiar realities.

Fear is not a choice.

Nerves is just a case of which end of a six-gun you happen to be lookin' at.

A guilty man runs when no one's chasin' him.

A snake-bit man is afraid of a rope.

Nightmares are the dress rehearsal for the dread awaiting.

Notice that the only place you will find peace is in surrendering your heart, mind, thoughts, and desires to Jesus Christ. In Jesus you will have peace. This peace means harmony, wholeness, and a secure feeling that everything will be all right. Many things in this world will try to rob you of peace, such as anxiety, depression, discouragement, jealousy, anger, bitterness and other negative characteristics and emotions

What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure; all the guy had to do was wait.

Terror has to be random...that's how to really break people, when they don't know what rules to follow to keep them out of trouble.

Ah si je pouvais moins l'aimer, ne pas être si maladroite, si anxieuse de lui plaire, si je pouvais montrer de l'indifférence. Alors elle m'aimerait, j'en suis sure. Mais on dirait que je lui pèse...Que de fois ne m'a-t-elle pas reproché de l'étouffer?

PHILIPPIANS 4:6 6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

Nothing's scarier than having a sick child, and one so newly born, and so vulnerable. It's the worst thing for a parent.

O]ur existential anxiety originates not from the objective state of reality but from our inflated expectations. The main problem is the discrepancy between our belief that we can handle everything by ourselves and the fact that, as mortals, we have several limitations. Unaware of this, we try to do the impossible: to control the uncontrollable, to predict the unpredictable, to hold on to the impermanent, and to secure the unsecurable. This illusion of omnipotence becomes our torture.

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

Life would be very miserable indeed were I to spend it in terror of the thing that has not yet happened.

This was a new menace that threatened them, something that they couldn't explain; and so, naturally, it aroused within them superstitious fear.

We are the fools of Time and Terror: Days Steal on us, and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.

once the will is submitted to the Father the fundamental cause of our anxieties is now removed.

Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that something is worth it.

No one ever told me grief felt so much like fear.