Quotes About Anxiety

Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths.

When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future. When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past.

Meditation is not a way of making your mind be quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there — buried under the fifty thousand thoughts the average person thinks every day. And most of those thoughts are automatic mental responses we've developed from conditioning that fill us with anxiety and fear. They are nothing more than habits, and 99 percent of the thoughts you have in a day are the same ones you had the day before.

Night is filled with our loudest fears and a silent courage.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Recently, photography has become... mainly a social rite, a defense against anxiety, and a tool of power.

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

Nothing is more expensive than penuriousness; nothing is more anxious than carelessness; and every duty which is bidden to wait, returns with seven fresh duties at its back.

Go to any sea-port town and you will see that the Sea-captain who has retired upon his well-earned savings, sets up a weather-cock in full view from his windows, and watches the variations of the wind as duly as when he was at sea, though no longer with the same anxiety.

He who has been stung by a scorpion is afraid of its shadow.

Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation.

If you're enjoying your anxieties, then for goodness' sake do not go skipping!

Quando avisto essa cambada, encolho-me, colo-me às paredes como um rato assustado. Como um rato, exatamente.

There are times in our lives, Rob, when all of us have to face up to what we fear the most

There are cases where coffins have been dug up and they've found scratch marks on the lids inside, broken fingernails stuck in the wood, bloody handprints." I shudder,

Find hard to talk to stranger. Terrible at chit-chat. Think people look at me funny then I start panic think have to be clever all of time. They not understand I artist, not entertainer! Magic of Bigfoot what happen when people not looking.

But I have not brought history with me this evening (history is a thin garment, easily punctured by a knife blade called Now). I have brought my fear.

It's been said, "There is one thing that believers and nonbelievers have in common: they are both uptight about evangelism," and that is true. When it comes to sharing the gospel, it seems we plan for failure far more often than success.

Fear needs a future," Evan said. "Let's focus on the present.

He remembered his agreement with Darby and felt a sudden claustrophobia. He'd have to deal with that when the time came.

The woman's form under the blankets was barely visible from the doorway, yet Allander could sense the inconsistency of her femininity. It scared him, the inconsistency. It always had.

Have you been worried since he broke out?" Jade asked. "Well, I suppose worried isn't quite the word for it. Concerned. Concerned is a better word.

People fear their hidden selves, afraid that they will burst out.

Its not impossible, Minelli said. No, Edward admitted, but its paranoid as hell, and thats the last thing we need, more fear.