Anxiety
Quotes - It is our work to cast care, and it is God's work to take care
“I
know that this process of ‘me changing my life’ doesn’t just end once I set
fire to this list of things I hate about myself. Tonight isn’t as much of a new
beginning as it is a violent end and I know the real work hasn’t even started
yet.”
―
Jennifer Elisabeth
“Sometimes
we self-sabotage just when things seem to be going smoothly. Perhaps this is a
way to express our fear about whether it is okay for us to have a better life.
We are bound to feel anxious as we leave behind old notions of our
unworthiness. The challenge is not to be fearless, but to develop strategies of
acknowledging our fears and finding out how we can allay them.”
―
Maureen Brady, Beyond Survival: A Writing Journey for Healing Childhood Sexual
Abuse
“It
is our work to cast care, and it is God's work to take care.”
―
Thomas Watson, The Art of Divine Contentment
“People
have gotten used to living a botched-up life — to be anxious, insecure,
hateful, jealous, and in various states of unpleasantness through the day —
slowly humanity has begun to see it as normal. None of these things are normal.
These are abnormalities. Once you accept them as part of life they become
normal because the majority has joined the gang of unpleasantness. They are all
saying, "Unpleasantness is normal. Being nasty to each other is normal.
Being nasty to myself is normal." Someone trusted that you would be doing
good things at least to yourself and said, "Do unto others what you do
unto yourself." I am telling you, never do unto others what you are doing
to yourself! By being with people, I know what they are doing to themselves is
the worst thing. Fortunately, they are not doing such horrible things to
others. Only once in a while they are giving a dose to others, but to
themselves they are giving it throughout the day.”
―
Jaggi Vasudev, Life and Death in One Breath
“Dust
sleeping on your bookshelf
and
all your plants are drying out
you
are too busy to save yourself
is
your mind heading for burnout?
Coffee
rings on your bedside table
anxiety
pills under your pillowcase
working
round the clock to foot the bill
is
there no time for breakfast these days?
Friends
haven't seen you in a while
your
phone is always out of reach
you're
slowly forgetting how to smile
is
your silence a figure of speech?
Life
can sometimes seem to be unfair
but
hoping is better than you think
send
the message in a bottle if you dare
is
it so hard to not force yourself to sink?”
―
Akash Mandal
“If
you want to conquer overthinking, bring your mind to the present moment and
reconnect it with the immediate world.”
―
Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations
“Magnesium
deficiency can produce symptoms of anxiety or depression, including muscle
weakness, fatigue, eye twitches, insomnia, anorexia, apathy, apprehension, poor
memory, confusion, anger, nervousness, and rapid pulse.”
―
Carolyn Dean, The Magnesium Miracle
“But
in neurotic anxiety, two conditions are necessary: (1) the threat must be to a
vital value; and (2) the threat must be present in juxtaposition with another
threat so that the individual cannot avoid one threat without being confronted
by another. In patterns of neurotic anxiety, the values held essential to the
individual's existence as a personality are in contradiction with each other.”
―
Rollo May, The Meaning of Anxiety
“The
man of courage is not the man who did not face adversity. The man of courage is
the man who faced adversity and spoke to it. The man of courage tells
adversity, "You're trespassing and I give you no authority to steal my
joy, my faith or my hope.”
―
Kiese Laymon, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
“Sometimes
feeling good isn’t about picking up more things to do, but about letting go of
things that have nothing to do with you.”
―
Curtis Tyrone Jones
“Everything
in us presses toward decision, even toward the wrong decision, just to be free
of the anxiety that precedes any big step in life.”
―
May Sarton, Plant Dreaming Deep
“I
feel like I'm the one made out of paper.”
―
Akemi Dawn Bowman, Starfish
“People
who are spiritually minded tend to suffer from anxiety and depression more. You
know why? Because their eyes are open to a world that is in need of repair.
They literally have an increased ability to feel the emotions of people around
them.”
―
Osho Rajneesh
“Remember,
the talking about the thing isn't the thing. Doing the thing is the thing.”
―
Amy Poehler, Yes Please
“You
are not alone...please know that hope can fly in on the most unexpected of
wings.”
―
Tracy Shawn, The Grace of Crows
“Overthinking
is not a disease; it is due to the underuse of your creative power.”
―
Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations
“Free
time is death to the anxious, and thank goodness I don't have any of it right
now.”
―
Jon Stewart
“You'd
be surprised how easy it is to talk an anxiously attached person down from
their spiral if you don't leave them in silence to imagine the worst.”
―
Sophie Gonzales, Perfect on Paper
“Once
the fear took hold, I was fucked. I'd never known anything like it could exist:
all-consuming, ravenous, a whirling black vortex that sucked me under so
completely and mercilessly that it truly felt like I was being devoured alive,
bones splintered, marrow sucked.”
―
Tana French, The Witch Elm
“You
have the chief spark of your health's fire, for you have true knowledge of the
hand that guides the universe.”
―
Boethius
“The
antidote to joy is dread.”
―
Sam Hamm, Batman: Blind Justice
