Anxiety
Quotes - It’s OKAY to be scared
“Anxiety
is the dizziness of freedom.”
―
Søren Kierkegaard , The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting
Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin
“Anxiety
is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning
man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you
with his panic.”
―
Anais Nin
“After
all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never
has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a
battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're
doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.”
―
Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello
“Worrying
is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once.
It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of
its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
―
Corrie Ten Boom
“To
hear the phrase "our only hope" always makes one anxious, because it
means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left.”
―
Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book
“If
you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the
breath.”
―
Amit Ray, Om Chanting and Meditation
“It
did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.”
―
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
“Man
is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real
problems”
―
Epictetus
“Don’t
worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of
intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and
become who they’re destined to be.”
―
Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
“To
venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to
venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self.”
―
Søren Kierkegaard
“The
more you pray, the less you'll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry.
You'll feel more patient and less pressured.”
―
Rick Warren, The Purpose of Christmas
“Our
anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its
strengths.”
― C.
H. Spurgeon
“I
promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems. Nothing is worth diminishing
your health. Nothing is worth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and
fear.”
―
Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human
Experience
“Understanding
the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying
down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism
hampers success. In fact, it's often the path to depression, anxiety,
addiction, and life paralysis.”
―
Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection
“I
want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk
into my life and need someone to love them beyond reason.”
―
Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
“Life
is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.”
―
Dorothy M. Neddermeyer
“Do
not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the
darkest nights that stars shine more brightly.”
―
Ali Ibn Abi Talib AS
“If
you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following:
anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and
inexplicable grief.”
―
Brené Brown
“Life
is like a game of chess.
To
win you have to make a move.
Knowing
which move to make comes with IN-SIGHT
and
knowledge, and by learning the lessons that are
acculated
along the way.
We
become each and every piece within the game called life!”
―
Allan Rufus, The Master's Sacred Knowledge
“I've
spent most of my life and most of my friendships holding my breath and hoping
that when people get close enough they won't leave, and fearing that it's a
matter of time before they figure me out and go.”
―
Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard
Way
“Anxiety's
like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very
far.”
―
Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home
“The
punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.”
―
St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
“It’s
OKAY to be scared. Being scared means you’re about to do something really,
really brave.”
―
Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing
Singleness with Confidence
“Feelings
don't try to kill you, even the painful ones. Anxiety is a feeling grown too
large. A feeling grown aggressive and dangerous. You're responsible for its
consequences, you're responsible for treating it. But...you're not responsible
for causing it. You're not morally at fault for it. No more than you would be
for a tumor.”
―
Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here
“A
coward talks to everyone but YOU.”
―
Shannon L. Alder
“In
an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future
unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking
recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a
half-imagined past.”
―
Alan Moore, Watchmen
“Anxiety
was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to
master it, we will have to learn to live with it—just as we have learned to
live with storms.”
―
Paulo Coelho, Manuscrito encontrado em Accra
“It
was that sort of sleep in which you wake every hour and think to yourself that
you have not been sleeping at all; you can remember dreams that are like
reflections, daytime thinking slightly warped.”
―
Kim Stanley Robinson, Icehenge
“The
past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do
that. But the future was inevitable.”
―
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
