Anxiety
Quotes - How can a person deal with anxiety?
“I
met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the
same thing.”
―
Jennifer Elisabeth
“Take
a shower. Wash away every trace of yesterday. Of smells. Of weary skin. Get
dressed. Make coffee, windows open, the sun shining through. Hold the cup with
two hands and notice that you feel the feeling of warmth. You still feel
warmth. Now sit down and get to work. Keep your mind sharp, head on, eyes on
the page and if small thoughts of worries fight their ways into your
consciousness: threw them off like fires in the night and keep your eyes on the
track. Nothing but the task in front of you.
Get
off your chair in the middle of the day. Put on your shoes and take a long walk
on open streets around people. Notice how they’re all walking, in a hurry, or
slowly. Smiling, laughing, or eyes straight forward, hurried to get to wherever
they’re going. And notice how you’re just one of them. Not more, not less. Find
comfort in the way you’re just one in the crowd. Your worries: no more, no
less.
Go
back home. Take the long way just to not pass the liquor store. Don’t buy the
cigarettes. Go straight home. Take off your shoes. Wash your hands. Your face.
Notice the silence. Notice your heart. It’s still beating. Still fighting. Now
get back to work. Work with your mind sharp and eyes focused and if any
thoughts of worries or hate or sadness creep their ways around, shake them off
like a runner in the night for you own your mind, and you need to tame it.
Focus. Keep it sharp on track, nothing but the task in front of you.
Work
until your eyes are tired and head is heavy, and keep working even after that.
Then
take a shower, wash off the day. Drink a glass of water. Make the room dark.
Lie down and close your eyes. Notice the silence. Notice your heart. Still
beating. Still fighting. You made it, after all. You made it, another day. And
you can make it one more. You’re
doing just fine. You’re
doing fine.
I’m
doing just fine.”
―
Charlotte Eriksson, You're Doing Just Fine
“But
I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other.
I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window--maybe rearrange all
the furniture.”
―
Raymond Carver, Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
“I
do not sleep because I am not only afraid of the monsters at my door, but also
of the monsters my own mind can conjure. The ones that live within.”
―
Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree
“I
lied and said I was busy.
I
was busy;
but
not in a way most people understand.
I
was busy taking deeper breaths.
I
was busy silencing irrational thoughts.
I
was busy calming a racing heart.
I
was busy telling myself I am okay.
Sometimes,
this is my busy -
and
I will not apologize for it.”
―
Brittin Oakman
“Stop
trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and
drain all of the things that are holding you back.”
―
Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
“The
largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to
defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness".”
―
Alain de Botton
“Chronic
anxiety is a state more undesirable than any other, and we will try almost any
maneuver to eliminate it. Modern man is living in anxious anticipation of
destruction. Such anxiety can be easily eliminated by self-destruction. As a
German saying puts it: 'Better an end with terror than a terror without end.”
―
Robert E. Neale, The Art of Dying
“If
I could drown in sleep as I drown in fear I would be no longer alive.”
―
Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
“Life
is like a sandwich!
Birth
as one slice,
and
death as the other.
What
you put in-between
the
slices is up to you.
Is
your sandwich tasty or sour?
Allan
Rufus.org”
―
Allan Rufus
“Some
people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith.
I don't agree at all. They are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions,
they are, if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ”
―
C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
“How
can a person deal with anxiety? You might try what one fellow did. He worried
so much that he decided to hire someone to do his worrying for him. He found a
man who agreed to be his hired worrier for a salary of $200,000 per year. After
the man accepted the job, his first question to his boss was, "Where are
you going to get $200,000 per year?" To which the man responded,
"That's your worry.”
―
Max Lucado
“No
amount of me trying to explain myself was doing any good. I didn't even know
what was going on inside of me, so how could I have explained it to them?”
―
Sierra D. Waters, Debbie.
