Quotes About Anxiety

lawyer's anxiety about the fate of the most interesting cause has seldom spoiled either his sleep or digestion.

Worry is the darkroom in which negatives can develop.

he is defining the immediate future as follows: old people huddling in big cities, afraid of the sky.

When we are in fear, there is no room for love, and when we are lin love, there is no room for fear.

You can paralyze yourself with perfectionistic do-your-best nonsense.

But there's no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it's your thoughts that create these false beliefs.

Fear itself does not exist in the world. There are only fearful thoughts and avoidance behaviors.

Think of yourself as too significant to live with anxiety about the things you have to do. So, the next time you know you are uncomfortable with postponement anxiety, remember that people who love themselves don't hurt themselves that way.

I like this quote attributed to Mark Twain: "I'm an old man and I've had many troubles. Most of which have never happened.

Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart. It is like a bird that has blundered down the flue and is caught indoors and flutters at the windowpanes. It is like standing a long time on a cold day, knocking at a shut door.

The thing was over. He himself was back home in bed again and safe. God knows why or how but he had come through one more. No telling what might happen the next time but why worry about that? This one was over and nothing had happened at all. Why did they make such a fuss?

When this Child Within is not nurtured or allowed freedom of expression, a false or co-dependent self emerges. We begin to live our lives from a victim stance, and experience difficulties in resolving emotional traumas. The gradual accumulation of unfinished mental and emotional business can lead to chronic anxiety, fear, confusion, emptiness and unhappiness.

Rather was it not a series of seven uneasy days, spent in restless pursuit of pleasure, and a wearisome anxiety to find out how to make the most of them? Where was the quiet, where the promised rest?

I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time.

I think I'm afraid of being happy because whenever I get too happy something bad always happens.

Sometimes you lie in bed at night, and you don't have a single thing to worry about...That always worries me!

Lucy: Do you think you have Pantophobia, Charlie Brown? Charlie: I don't know, what is pantophobia? Lucy: The fear of Everything. Charlie: THAT'S IT!!!

Never worry about tomorrow, Charlie Brown. Tomorrow will soon be today, and before you know it, today will be yesterday! I always worry about the day after tomorrow!

Once when Monty was in kindergarten, I had read to him and was trying to get him to go to sleep. He said he didn't want to close his eyes because "It's dark in there.

Life is easier if you only Dread one day at a time.

Darkness does that. It speaks fears that, left alone, remain unspoken, yet real.

I think I have an extremely aggravated case of paranoia

An unavoidable side effect of ambition is to be gnawed by ambition anxiety about whether you're going to succeed. You're bound to feel it in your twenties and thirties. Put it away in your forties. By that time, you should have learned enough to recognize that fame and wealth are trivial—really, truly trivial—to a life well lived.

When you are faced with a challenge that is far beyond your skills, the result is anxiety. When your skills are high but the challenges are low, you are bored. If you have low skills and the challenge is also low, you are able to do the job but are unlikely to become absorbed in it—apathy is the characteristic response. But when the skills are high and in balance with a stiff challenge, flow occurs. It is the Aristotelian principle on a two-dimensional plot.