Quotes About Anxiety

Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers."—Seneca the Younger

Once we get those muddy, maddening, confusing thoughts [nebulous worries, jitters, and preoccupations] on the page, we face our day with clearer eyes.

Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.

If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present." —Lao Tzu

What Does It Feel Like? "If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present." —Lao Tzu

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El perfeccionismo genera indecisión, lo cual conduce a la parálisis.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened." —Mark Twain

A lot of time was wasted, a lot of energy was wasted, being worried.

The more you run from your fears, the bigger they get, but the more you go into them, the more they tend to vanish like a mirage.

Soy anciano y he pasado gran cantidad de preocupaciones, pero la mayoría de ellas no ha llegado a materializarse jamás.

Stressed' is the achiever word for 'fear.

There's a vital truth to be learned from the fall of Anakin Skywalker. It's simply this: You were not fashioned to live in fear. That's why worry and stress cause such chaos in your life. Your Creator crafted your soul to flourish in faith, not to drown in fear.

But they simply didn't know Sammy in the late hours, all his virulent bedtime prayers whispered away into his folded hands, releasing his worry and anxiety over the sinful so he could sleep well and fight the devil again in the daylight. And, easefully and kindly, he'd hold Abby in his arms, becoming just as lost as everyone else, just as blind in the dark.

Violence is not confidence, and terror is not mastery.

When we lack a sense of past and future, the present feels like a shaky platform, an uncertain basis for action.

Uncertainty can be the most difficult and frightening of mental states. If you're always wondering which way to go, you might freeze up and not go anywhere. If you're afraid you can't do something, you might not even try.

Honest to God, all my life I have had such a fear of spiders. In fact, I use to have a reoccurring dream about one. Very clearly, it was black with a red head. It would sit up in the corner of the bedroom and when it started getting closer, I would wake up in a panic.

Greater is our terror of the unknown.

I am always afraid of your something shall be done.

My children will suffer in ways I fear I can foresee but am hopeless to prevent.

It's weird when you wake of from a bad dream and everything is still bad.

Real fear, he now knew, took its power not from what could happen but what you realize will happen.

Burns collaborated with pioneering cognitive psychologist Aaron T. Beck, who believed that most depression or anxiety was simply a result of illogical and negative thinking. He