Quotes about Anxiety

Don't you ever get scared?" I ask. "Of what?" She says. "Of not being good enough." "You mean at writing?" L'il asks. I nod. "What if I'm the only one who thinks I can do it and no one else does? What if I'm fooling myself-" "Oh, Carrie." She smiles. "Don't you know that every writer feels that way? Fear is part of the job.

When feeling lonely or anxious, most of us have the habit of looking for distractions, which often leads to some form of unwholesome consumption -- whether eating a snack in the absence of hunger, mindlessly surfing the Internet, going on a drive, or reading. Conscious breathing is a good way to nourish body and mind with mindfulness.

Often we either don't plan at all, or we get caught up in obsessive planning because we fear the future and its uncertainty.

We may think that if we ignore our fears, they'll go away. But if we bury worries and anxieties in our consciousness, they continue to affect us and bring us more sorrow.

We should treat our anxiety, our pain, our hatred and passion gently, respect-fully, not resisting it, but living with it, making peace with it, penetrating into its nature by meditation on interdependence.

He that fears death loses the joys of life.

I'm not at the point where I'd feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I'm the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone's going to jump out and get me.

Actually, I don't hate cats, I'm just kind of afraid of them.

joy' in Phillippians is a defiant 'Nevertheless!' that Paul sets like a full stop against the Philippians' anxiety...

That all possible kinds of mortification, if they were void of the love of GOD, could not efface a single sin. That we ought, without anxiety, to expect the pardon of our sins from the Blood of JESUS CHRIST, only endeavoring to love Him with all our hearts. That GOD seemed to have granted the greatest favors to the greatest sinners, as more signal monuments of his mercy.

Anxiety. — 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.

Ignorance is the parent of fear.