Quotes About Anxiety

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.

I'm interested in using the iconography of nature and the American landscape as surrogates or metaphors for psychological anxiety, fear or desire

I am living for every day and trying to have less fear, less worry. But I have always worried about everything; it's in my nature. It's the thing that makes me suffer the most.

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

I have always hated flying. The idea of it is an affront to nature. People are meant to stay on the ground.

Have you ever considered what anxious thought, what consummate knowledge of human nature, what dearly-bought experiences go into the making of an advertisement?

When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.

One didn't issue instructions to comets. Grown children did what they had to do, and parents could only grit their teeth and watch and pray for them to get through it.

Was parenting ever going to get easier? Did you ever reach a point where you could stop worrying?

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

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

The message had been delivered. All they could do now was wait. Valden hated waiting.

It was the waiting and watching that cost the most. For during that time he had to endure.

Three enemies of personal peace: regret over yesterday's mistakes, anxiety over tomorrow's problems, and ingratitude for today's blessings.

When we start to feel anxious or depressed, instead of asking, "What do I need to get to be happy?" The question becomes, "What am I doing to disturb the inner peace that I already have?"

The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.

True Love gives you Peace! It doesn't consume you with anxiety, that's lust!

All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear

Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

The enemy wants to steal our peace and keep us stirred up, anxious, fearful, upset, and always in a stance of waiting for something terrible to happen at any minute.

Worry is belief gone wrong. Because you don't believe that God will get it right. But peace - peace is belief that exhales. Because you believe that God's provision is everywhere - like air.

Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.

I can cheat fear today - but won't it return tomorrow? Rather, I must embrace this fear... and find peace in its bosom.