198 Anxiety Quotes Fueling Strength and Serenity in Your Journey

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Famous Anxiety Quotes

Anxiety is the gap between now and later. — Frederick Salomon Perls

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity. — T. S. Eliot

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. - Soren Kierkegaard

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. — Soren Kierkegaard

Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history. — Charles Frankel

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

Anxiety is the gap between the NOW and the THEN. So if you are in the NOW, you can't be anxious, because your excitement flows immediately into ongoing spontaneous activity. — Bruce Lee

Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky

Anxiety and fear are cousins but not twins. Fear sees a threat. Anxiety imagines one. — Max Lucado

Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry. — Saint Francis de Sales

Anxiety can often trace back to genetic mutations affecting neurotransmitters like serotonin, emphasizing the importance of addressing physiological roots over coping mechanisms. — Gary Brecka

Anxiety triggers the release of catacolamines, fight or flight neurotransmitters, showcasing how thoughts influence physiological responses, even when not in a threat situation. — Gary Brecka

Suffer no anxiety, for he who is a sufferer of anxiety becomes regardless of enjoyment of the world and the spirit, and contraction happens to his body and soul. — Zoroaster

As Seth Godin says, ‘Anxiety is nothing but repeatedly re-experiencing failure in advance.’ – Pat Flynn — Pat Flynn

Emotional states, especially anxiety, often root in physiology, like issues with neurotransmitter production, emphasizing the biological basis of these states. — Gary Brecka

Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems — Epictetus

Short Anxiety Quotes

  • The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety. — George E. Mueller
  • Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it. — Kahlil Gibran
  • The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety. — George Muller
  • No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen. — Alan Watts
  • Feelings are just visitors, let them come and go. — Mooji
  • The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place. — Helen Keller
  • The greatest prison people live in is the fear of what other people think. — David Icke
  • I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. — Dorothea Dix
  • Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me. — Isabel Allende
  • Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it. — Hans Selye

Anxiety Image Quotes

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it. - Mark Twain quote

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it. — Mark Twain

Anxiety quote When thinking about life, remember this: no amount of guilt can change the past, and no amount of an
When thinking about life, remember this: no amount of guilt can change the past, and no amount of anxiety can change the future.

Health Anxiety Quotes

I promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems. Nothing is worth your health. Nothing is worth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and fear. — Steve Maraboli

The secret of perfect health lies in keeping the mind always cheerful - never worried, never hurried, never borne down by any fear, thought or anxiety. — Sathya Sai Baba

Anxiety, depression, and all issues you aren't able to figure out might be linked to your gut health. — Gary Brecka

Anxiety quote Stress, anxiety, and depression are caused when we are living to please others.
Stress, anxiety, and depression are caused when we are living to please others.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease. — Alexander Pope

Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. — Moliere

Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days ahead. — Kris Carr

Anxiety quote No about of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.
No about of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.

We know that our bodies suffer from overwork and lack of leisure: anxiety, mental-health issues - we're not designed to work more than about 40 hours a week. Our systems wear out and the quality of the work suffers. After 50 hours, it crashes and burns. — Katrina Onstad

In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention. — Rowan D. Williams

In the West, we have become addicted to work. Americans now work the longest hours in the world. And the result is not health, wealth and wisdom, but rather a lot of anxiety, a lot of ill health and a lot of debt. — Tom Hodgkinson

We are the carriers of health and disease - either the divine health of courage and nobility or the demonic diseases of hate and anxiety — Joshua L. Liebman

Fighting Anxiety Quotes

I fight pain, anxiety, and fear every day, and the only method I have found that relieves my illness is to keep creating art. I followed the thread of art and somehow discovered a path that would allow me to live. — Yayoi Kusama

I’m very anxious. If you’re going to fight the best fighters, you have to be prepared for a war, a highly-anticipated fight. — Amanda Nunes

There’s a ton of nerves for every fight I’ve been in, it doesn’t matter if it was my debut. — Holly Holm

No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don’t fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best. — Benjamin Carson

Don't fight with the pillow, but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed. — Edmund Vance Cooke

The physical symptoms of fight or flight are what the human body has learned over thousands of years to operate efficiently and at the highest level...anxiety is a cognitive interpretation of that physical response. — John Eliot

Fear results in fight or flight. Anxiety creates doom and gloom. Fear is the pulse that pounds when you see a coiled rattlesnake in your front yard. Anxiety is the voice that tells you, Never, ever, for the rest of your life, walk barefooted through the grass. There might be a snake...somewhere. — Max Lucado

Don't focus on the outcome, when you focus on the outcome it creates anxiety and it builds. I just need to enjoy the moment and let it be. If I just fight I know I'm going to go out there and perform and do it my best. Don't focus on winning or losing. — Luke Rockhold

The only thing I have to lose going into this fight is anxiety, fear, worry; all those kinds of negativity. — Alex Caceres

To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala is as limiting as saying that my personality or my soul is reducible to the molecules that make up my brain cells or to the genes that underwrote them. — Scott Stossel

Anxiety And Fear Quotes

I have never known more than fifteen minutes of anxiety or fear. Whenever I feel fearful emotions overtaking me, I just close my eyes and thank God that He is still on the throne reigning over everything and I take comfort in His control over the affairs of my life. — John Wesley

Art is restoration: the idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life, to make something that is fragmented - which is what fear and anxiety do to a person - into something whole. — Louise Bourgeois

Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions. — Paul Ryan

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man. — Pat Paulsen

There are seven emotions: joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate, and if a man does not give way to these he can be called patient. — Ieyasu Tokugawa

Never fear, inevitably we shall have our years of failure, and when they arrive, we must reveal tolerance and sanity. No matter the days of anxiety that come our way, we shall emerge stronger because of the trials to be overcome. — Bill Struth

Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere-and I really don't get on with machismo. I'm interested in sensitivity, and weakness, and fear, and anxiety, because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that's what we are. — Alain de Botton

Fear is a habit, so is self pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can and I will. — Napoleon Hill

Suffering through your fears and anxieties is what allows you to build courage and perseverance. — Mark Manson

Our brains replay every painful memory from the past and every possible scary scenario from the future over and over, just like a complex computer simulation, in an attempt to scare us away from threats before they can happen and regardless of the probability of their happening at all. — Mo Gawdat

Anxiety And Worry Quotes

Worrying gets you nowhere. If you turn up worrying about how you're going to perform, you've already lost. Train hard, turn up, run your best and the rest will take care of itself. — Usain Bolt

If we do not fill our mind with prayer, it will fill itself with anxieties, worries, temptations, resentments, and unwelcome memories. — Scott Hahn

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

By the anxieties and worries of this life Satan tries to dull man's heart and make a dwelling for himself there. — Francis of Assisi

My yoke is easy, and my burden light. - Saint Boniface

My yoke is easy, and my burden light. — Saint Boniface

The day you stop worrying will be the first day of your new life; anxiety takes you in circles, trust in yourself and become free. — Leon Brown

Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. — Mitch Albom

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

We just kept putting off the worry as we focused on the next problem and how to solve it. — Fred Haise

If you keep in mind that love and love alone is the reason for living, it will calm your heart and free you from your worries. — Harold Klemp

Stress And Anxiety Quotes

Whether a person is spiritual or not, we all seek to get away from the stress, anger, and anxiety of everyday life. Some people drink, do drugs, or do worse to escape, and they hurt themselves in the process. Some people listen to music, mine included, and feel better. — Yanni

Morning routines help prime you for the day ahead. Even 5 minutes of intentional time each morning can result in more energy, increased calm, less anxiety, improved stress tolerance, and better relationships - professional and personal. — Rangan Chatterjee

Sometimes ‘enough’ or even less is all we need, since ‘more’ too often equates to more stress and more problems. — Paul Jarvis

Multitasking takes a toll. At home or at work, distractions lead to poor choices, painful mistakes, and unnecessary stress. — Gary Keller

Our attachment style influences not just how we react to stress, but also how we seek and offer support. — Amir Levine

Reading is also linked with higher emotional intelligence, reduced stress, a wider vocabulary, and improved comprehension. — Gautam Baid

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what. — Andy Warhol

Our stresses, anxieties, pains, and problems arise because we do not see the world, others, or even ourselves as worthy of love — Prem Prakash

All the commercials on TV today are for antidepressants, for Prozac or Paxil. And they get you right away. "Are you sad? Do you get stressed, do you have anxiety?" "Yes, I have all those things! I'm alive!" — Ellen DeGeneres

Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place. — Kurt Vonnegut

Overcoming Anxiety Quotes

You don't have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you. — Dan Millman

The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid. — Lady Bird Johnson

Courage is not the absence of fear... — Richard Stengel

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that — James Neil Hollingworth

There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem. — Harold Stephens

Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out. — Karl A. Menninger

Christ told his disciples not to be anxious about tomorrow, but he never said not to consider tomorrow. Intelligent problem solving demands careful consideration of the future effects of present solutions. — R. C. Sproul

Courage has to do with controlling fear and it seems to me that focus has a way of overcoming anxiety. — Tommy Franks

The other side of every fear is a freedom. — Marilyn Ferguson

A Christian's freedom from anxiety is not due to some guaranteed freedom from trouble, but to the folly of worry and especially to the confidence that God is our Father, that even permitted suffering is within the orbit of His care. — John Stott

Anxiety And Depression Quotes

Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes. — William Gibson

Everything you do right now ripples outward and affects everyone. Your posture can shine your heart or transmit anxiety. Your breath can radiate love or muddy the room in depression. Your glance can awaken joy. Your words can inspire freedom. Your every act can open hearts and minds. — David Deida

When you look at a person, any person, everyone has a story. Everyone has gone through something that has changed their life. Anxiety, depression and panic attacks are not signs of weakness. They are signs of trying to remain strong for way too long. — Deepika Padukone

Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment. — Grenville Kleiser

Happiness in a tablet. This is our world. Prozac. Daxil. Xanax. Billions are spent to advertise such drugs. And billions are spent purchasing them. You don't even need a specific trauma, just 'general depression' is enough, or anxiety, as if sadness is as treatable as the common cold. — Mitch Albom

Take care of yourself, both physically and mentally. Self-care is essential for overall well-being. — Edward Barber

It is an essential part of the interpretive work that it should keep in step with fluctuations between love and hatred, between happiness and satisfaction on the one hand and persecutory anxiety and depression on the other. — Melanie Klein

We were at a Giants game, and my manager told me, “Sadie, you have an audition for a show called ‘Stranger Things’,” and I had just finished binge-watching it in a few days. — Sadie Sink

Stop helicopter parenting. Let kids play outside unsupervised. Kids who aren't allowed to explore and play outside are at increased risk of anxiety and depression. — Michael Easter

Hopelessness is the root of anxiety, mental illness, and depression. It is the source of all misery and the cause of all addiction. — Mark Manson

Performance Anxiety Quotes

Train yourself to see opportunity rather than difficulty. Joy rather than anxiety. Practice rather than performance. — Tom Bilyeu

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

When the brain isn't working properly and we don't understand how to calibrate the brain for optimal performance we are going to feel these doubts, fears and anxieties and most people when this happens they don't understand why and they let that paralyze them. — John Assaraf

It had been drilled into us that when an audience pays to see a performance, it is entitled to the best performance you can give.Nothing in your personal life must interfere, neither fatigue, illness, nor anxiety--not even joy. — Lillian Gish

When we are not too anxious about happiness and unhappiness, but devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, then happiness comes of itself - nay, even springs from the midst of a life of troubles and anxieties and privations. — Wilhelm von Humboldt

I definitely have an alter ego that can come out and get me out of situations where I'm having social anxiety. I can take a deep breath and create a bubble so I can perform in some way. — Lindy Booth

There's a big difference in doing a play or doing any project that not a lot of people see and then a project that you know everyone will see. There is more pressure, performance anxiety per se. And then when you do and what you love is really put to test. — Viola Davis

I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety. — George Murray

I am forever grateful that I got some training in the theater - it reduces performance anxiety. — Julia Stiles

I've always loved performing. It was always very exciting for me. I don't get too nervous when I'm playing, but on every stage, it's a little different. I'm always excited, but sometimes, the level of anxiety to perform is greater. — George Li

Living With Anxiety Quotes

If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

Say what I want, do what I want… I rather deal with consequences than live in fear. — 21 Savage

One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives. — Polly Toynbee

Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the plot. You can't process it because it doesn't fit with what came before or what comes afterwards. — Jessica Stern

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

Creative people... are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity, sensitivity, and defenselessness for the gift of 'divine madness,' to borrow the term used by the classical Greeks. — Rollo May

In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom produces art. It's that imbalance which impels us... The artist lives with anxiety. — Beverly Pepper

South Africa is such a fraught place to live. The anxiety about crime, the crunching on racial eggshells, the juxtaposition of First World materialism with Third World squalor. — Rory Carroll

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. We should live for the future, and yet should find our life in the fidelities of the present; the last is only the method of the first. — Henry Ward Beecher

One thing, all things: move among and intermingle, without distinction. To live in this realization is to be without anxiety about non-perfection. To live in this faith is the road to non-duality, because the non-dual is one with the trusting mind. — Sengcan

Anxiety Disorder Quotes

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

Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating disorders develop. — Vanessa Carlton

It was about this time that I began experiencing the beginnings of my battles with an anxiety disorder. We were touring a lot and there were some developing personal problems within the band. — Jack Irons

We should be worrying about if you live in the city you're more likely to have anxiety or mood disorders and to be schizophrenic. More than the problems people have from social media. — Nick Harkaway

I'm shy, but I'm not clinically shy. I don't have social anxiety disorder or anything like that. I more have a gentle shyness. Like, I have a little trouble mingling at parties. — Samantha Bee

Well, unless you've suffered from panic attacks and social anxiety disorders, which is what I was diagnosed as having, it's hard to explain it. But you go on stage knowing you're actually physically going to die. You will keel over and die. — Donny Osmond

Now that I have conquered social anxiety disorder, I find pleasure in fans approaching me. — Ricky Williams

The moment I started treating my social anxiety disorder, I started feeling better. — Ricky Williams

Anxiety Attacks Quotes

I try not to worry about the future - so I take each day just one anxiety attack at a time. — Tom Wilson

You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do. — David Foster Wallace

No wonder women have achieved a more equal footing with men in areas they never fought for -- ulcers, hypertension, and heart attacks. We're racing around trying to be all things to all people, burdened by a brutal mix of ambition, anxiety, and guilt. — Kathie Lee Gifford

It can hit at any time [anxiety/panic attack]. You feel like you're in an open field, and there's a tornado coming at you. And you're just consumed by it. — Kim Basinger

I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack. — Carly Simon

I was about to meet Beyonce, and I had a full-blown anxiety attack. Then she popped in looking gorgeous, and said, "You're amazing! When I listen to you I feel like I'm listening to God." — Adele

If I ignore my work, I start having anxiety attacks. — Rosanne Cash

I often thought I was in the wrong business. I was pretty seriously thinking of tossing it in before I shot Shine. I do not know why. I was pretty restless, I had been through a bad period of stress induced anxiety - panic attacks - and I was not sure of what I wanted to do. — Geoffrey Rush

When you realize that you are an eternal being, you will laugh at things that used to give you anxiety attacks. — Stephen Baxter

I was not a silly kid or outgoing. In fact, I suffered from quite a bit of anxiety. I used to have panic attacks when I was a teenager, really incapacitating moments, because I had some phobias. — Dane Cook

Social Anxiety Quotes

The sexual freedom of today for most people is really only a convention, an obligation, a social duty, a social anxiety, a necessary feature of the consumer's way of life. — Pier Paolo Pasolini

No one is moved to act, or resolves to speak a single word, who does not hope by means of this action or word to release anxiety from his spirit. — Ibn Hazm

Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it. — Simone de Beauvoir

From restless thoughts, that, like a deadly swarm Of hornets arm'd, no sooner found alone, But rush upon me thronging. — John Milton

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. — Henry David Thoreau

We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic. — Cullen Hightower

Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else. — Mignon McLaughlin

Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. — Theodore Newton Vail

I have social anxiety. It's easier up on stage because there's security in being there. When I'm off stage I'm trying not to be a manic freak. I'm quite shy. — Sia Furler

You have social media and the Internet and immigration and so, suddenly, cultures are clashing and people feel as if they're less familiar with the people around them. That causes social anxieties. — Barack Obama

Anxious Thoughts Quotes

Any anxious thought as to the means to be employed in the accomplishment of our purposes is quite unnecessary. If the end is already secured, then it follows that all the steps leading to it are secured also. — Thomas Troward

When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everthing in me that is bewildered and confused. — Rainer Maria Rilke

When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled my age in a year. I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I'm six I'll be ninety. — Steven Wright

Demanding domestic security in times of war invites carelessness in preserving civil liberties and the right of privacy. Frequently the people are only too anxious for their freedoms to be sacrificed on the altar of authoritarianism thought to be necessary to remain safe and secure. — Ron Paul

Weak thoughts and feelings often feel strong but remember, real strength is never anxious, cruel, or punishing. — Guy Finley

New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign. — Alec Baldwin

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more. — Winston Churchill

I was a fan of Hitchcock, but more importantly than that, he is such an inscrutable man, and a very carefully inscrutable man. He apparently was blank-faced with a calm and controlled presence. I was immediately anxious and thought, 'How am I going to get behind that?' — Toby Jones

Much like the hands of a clock go nowhere fast, anxious thoughts run us round-and-round without taking us anywhere! — Guy Finley

Believing that anxious thoughts and feelings can restore order to your life is like using a chain-saw to fold your laundry. — Guy Finley

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More Anxiety Quotes

A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strenghs; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities. — William Arthur Ward

Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. — Saint Peter

If you do not trust life to unfold, the mind takes over and it becomes a game of strategy, motivated by anxiety. This mistrust is unfair. Life has given us so much, and yet we do not trust it. — Mooji

God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too. — Rick Warren

The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before. — Albert Einstein

Three enemies of personal peace: regret over yesterday’s mistakes, anxiety over tomorrow’s problems, and ingratitude for today’s blessings. — William Arthur Ward

When the soul is starved for nourishment, it lets us know with feelings of emptiness, anxiety, or yearning — Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Above all trust in the slow work of God. Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will be. Give our Lord the benefit of believing that His hand is leading you, and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety; if I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret here for anyone who can grasp it. — Rumi

Sabbath, in the first instance, is not about worship. It is about work stoppage. It is about withdrawal from the anxiety system of Pharaoh, the refusal to let one’s life be defined by production and consumption and the endless pursuit of private well-being. — Walter Brueggemann

Good communication is not just data transfer. You need to show people something that addresses their anxieties, that accepts their anger, that is credible in a very gut-level sense, and that evokes faith in the vision. — John P. Kotter

Leave aside your regrets of the past and anxieties of the future And focus intelligently on the present. This is the best way of ensuring a positive future. — Chinmayananda Saraswati

Basic anxiety can be roughly described as a feeling of being small, insignificant, helpless, deserted or endangered in a world that is out to abuse, cheat, humiliate, betray, envy... . And special in this is the child's feeling that the parents' love, their Christian charity, honesty, generosity ... may be only a pretense. — Karen Horney

You can never become a great man or woman until you have overcome anxiety, worry, and fear. It is impossible for an anxious person, a worried one, or a fearful one to perceive truth; all things are distorted and thrown out of their proper relations by such mental states, and those who are in them cannot read the thoughts of God. — Wallace D. Wattles

My pictures must first be beautiful, but that beauty is not enough. I strive to convey an underlying edge of anxiety, of isolation, of fear. — Gregory Crewdson

I am gay on the outside, especially among my own folk (I count Poles my own); but inside something gnaws at me; some presentiment, anxiety, dreams - or sleeplessness - melancholy, indifference - desire for life, and the next instant, desire for death; some kind of sweet peace, some kind of numbness, absent-mindedness. — Frederic Chopin

According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy. — Jerry Seinfeld

In Conclusion

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