Quotes About Anxiety

Was she insane?! She would lose her head before she was 20!

Fear can give you urgent wings.

Ogni vera gioia ha una paura dentro.

I leaned my head back and closed my eyes, my mind a jumble. So much for breaking it off gently, I thought. The humor helped my mind clear, but I couldn't laugh. What would happen next?

Everyone has an opinion. And yet we feel more lost and afraid than ever

All day you have been on my mind, a steam iron pressing the convolutions from my cortex, ironing me flat. Worrying cooks my cells feverish. I am irritable with love boiling into anxiety, till I grow furious with you, lying under the surgeon's knife.

I love silence but I fear emptiness.

Always your mind goes to the worst, Mam, and the worst very seldom happens.

This was a crush? It felt like gum stuck in my throat. Gum stuck in my heart. Mucking everything up. Crush . It felt crushing. Not in a good way. In an eating-too-much cookie-dough-and-getting-a-stomachache way. Too overwhelming.

She was afraid of numbers the way some people are of spiders. The sight of them made her want to hide. What I loved about them, their clarity, was for her duplicity. Behind an innocent 2,or 5, or 9, she spied a mass of traps and pitfalls.

The little fellow had been about to feel himself a conqueror, and he found himself held within two imprisoning arms, impotent. The expression of joy, anxiety, and hope, which had interested me so much faded from his face and left on it the stupid expression of the child who knows that others will act for him.

I stressed out trying to figure out what I could say. I ate licorice. I stressed some more. I ate Dots. I stressed out even more-and wiped out a bag of Swedish Fish. And then I wrote.

Perfectionism doesn't make you feel perfect; it makes you feel inadequate.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

I wished there was some kind of switch on my brain. That I could turn it off in the same way that I could turn off the television. Just click it off and immediately empty my mind of all these images and worrying thoughts. And simply leave a blank screen. Or if I could just remove my head and put it on the bedside table and forget about it until morning. And then attach it again when I needed it.

Fear traps your mind.

he was petrified. He basically stayed out of the

Injudicious Gardening Fear is Hope

I therefore had only enough fear to make myself terrified — not enough to turn back

Perfectionism at its core isn't about high standards. It's about fear. Fear of failure. Fear of looking stupid, fear of making a mistake, fear of being judged, criticized, and ridiculed. It's the fear that one simple fact might be true: You're just not good enough.

Doing the thing is far easier than the terror we inflict upon ourselves by stressing over it in our heads. The fastest way out of our fear is through it.

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.