Quotes About Anxiety

Each person carries around in himself a terrible other world of hell and the unknown. It is an enormous pit reaching below the deepest crater of the earth, or it is the thinnest air far beyond the moon. But it is frightening and essentially "unlike" man as he knows himself familiarly, so we spend all our days living at the other antipodes of ourself.

If she ever had an impulse to tell Carol, the words dissolved before she began, in fear and in her usual mistrust of her own reactions, the anxiety that her reactions were like no one else's, and that therefore not even Carol could understand them.

The anxiety has always been within himself, a battle of himself against himself, so tortuous he might have welcomed the law's intervention.

1. What am I worrying about? "2. What can I do about it?

As the years went by, I gradually discovered that ninety-nine per cent of the things I worried about never happened. For

articulate, and at ease in expressing their ideas on a one-to-one basis, become tongue-tied and terrified when faced with even a small audience. Businesspeople have been stymied in their careers because they fear speaking up

Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it." —Hans Selye "Worry is the stomach's worst poison." —Alfred

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery but the friction.—Henry Ward Beecher.

What am I worrying about? What can I do about it?

So I banish about ninety per cent of my worries by taking these four steps: Writing down precisely what I am worrying about. Writing down what I can do about it. Deciding what to do. Starting immediately to carry out that decision.

Writing down precisely what I am worrying about. Writing down what I can do about it. Deciding what to do. Starting immediately to carry out that decision.

Business men who do not know how to fight worry die young.

Aren't we all like that battling giant of the forest? Don't we manage somehow to survive the rare storms and avalanches and lightning blasts of life, only to let our hearts be eaten out by little beetles of worry—little beetles that could be crushed between a finger and a thumb?

if you are a chronic worrier, you may be stricken some day with one of the most excruciating pains ever endured by man: angina pectoris.

You do not get stomach ulcers from what you eat. You get ulcers from what is eating you.

My life," he said, "has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened." So has mine—so has yours.

Worry is like the constant drip, drip, drip of water; and the constant drip, drip, drip of worry often drives men to insanity and suicide.

Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry.

El miedo causa preocupación. La preocupación pone a uno tenso y nervioso, afecta a los nervios del estomago, cambia los jugos gástricos de normales a anormales y frecuentemente provoca ulceras estomacales. Las ulceras del estomago no vienen de lo que se que come. Vienen de lo que está comiendo a uno.

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

Here is question No. 1—What am I worrying about? (Please pencil the answer to that question in the space below.) Question No. 2—What can I do about it? (Please write your answer to that question in the space below.) Question No. 3—Here is what I am going to do about it. Question No. 4—When am I going to start doing it?

Since worry is one of the biggest problems facing mankind, you would think, wouldn't you, that every high school and college in the land would give a course on "How to Stop Worrying"?

Worries don't bother me any more. No more stomach pains. No more insomnia. I now crumple up yesterday's anxieties and toss them into the wastebasket, and I have ceased trying to wash tomorrow's dirty dishes today.

confusion is the chief cause of worry.