Quotes About Anxiety

Fear is divorced from any concrete and true immediate danger. It is always of something that *might* happen, not of something that is happening now. *You* are in the here and now, while your mind is in the future. This creates an anxiety gap. You cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection.

La condición psicológica del miedo está divorciada de cualquier peligro inmediato concreto y verdadero. Se presenta de muchas formas: incomodidad, preocupación, ansiedad, nerviosismo, tensión, temor, fobia, etcétera. Este tipo de miedo psicológico se refiere siempre a algo que podría pasar, no a algo que está ocurriendo ahora. Usted está en el aquí y ahora mientras que su mente está en el futuro. Esto crea una brecha de ansiedad.

You will observe that the future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety.

Si el futuro imaginario es mejor, te da esperanza o expectativas placenteras. Si es peor, crea ansiedad. Ambas son ilusorias.

Can anxious thought add a single day to your life?

The mind then creates an obsession with the future as an escape from the unsatisfactory present.

Toda la negatividad es causada por una acumulación de tiempo psicológico y por la negación del presente. La incomodidad, la ansiedad, el estrés, la preocupación — todas las formas del mi-edo — son causadas por exceso de futuro y demasiado poca presencia. La culpa, las lamentaciones, el resentimiento, las quejas, la tristeza, la amargura y todas las formas de falta de perdón son causadas por exceso de pasado y falta de presencia.

psychological fear is always of something that might happen, not of something that is happening now. You are in the here and now, while your mind is in the future. This creates an anxiety gap.

Could adults actually deal with a weird monster under their bed? I think if the monster started moving around, then- well we'd get out of bed and we'd get a frying pan, and then we'd beat the crap out of the monster under the bed. Or we'd get a broom and poke the monster out. No, we'd lock the door and set fire to the house.

but life would be very miserable indeed were I to spend it in terror of the thing that has not yet happened.

A silly man lies awake all night, Thinking of many things. When the morning comes he is worn with care, And his trouble is just as it was.

The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future.

My idea of success," he said, "is personal freedom." "Freedom? Freedom from worries?" "From everything—from money, from poverty, from ease and anxiety, from all the material accidents. To keep a kind of republic of the spirit—that's what I call success.

Ruth Varnum was always as nervous as a rat; and, come to think of

His face, with its tossed red hair and straggling moustache, had a driven uneasy look, as though life had become an unceasing race between himself and the thoughts at his heels.

Ethan, there's something wrong! I knew there was!" She seemed to melt against him in her terror, and he caught her in his arms, held her fast there, felt her lashes beat his cheek like netted butterflies.

The next two or three days dragged by heavily. The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future.

Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security.

I believe that many of the boys have a lurking fear that their parents will disgrace them in some fashion.

An anxious mind cannot exist in a relaxed body." Body and mind are inextricably related in anxiety.

They that haue much, feare much to loose thereby, And store of cares doth follow riches store.

his hand did quake, And tremble like a leafe of Aspin greene, And troubled blood through his pale face was seene To come, and goe with tidings from the heart, As it a ronning messenger had beene.

What I had instead was the ache of waiting and the fear I wasn't worthy.

Love is a source of anxiety until it is a source of boredom; only friendship feeds the spirit.