Anxiety Quotes

Your path might be a lonely one... but, you are NOT alone!

~ Martin R. Lemieux

I hope you see what you've done to me.

~ Matthew Little

The problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves onto a cyberworld: there’s no end of virtual spaces in which to seek stimulation, but their very endlessness, the perpetual stimulation without satisfaction, becomes imprisoning.

~ Jonathan Franzen

You're surrounded by people and voices and noises, but there you are, alone and trembling inside. And you want to be invisible. (thinking) Please, don't notice me.

~ Kellie Elmore

Uncommon anxiety came to us in common hours when other people were doing mundane things like taking out the trash or checking their phones. But there was nothing to be done for this. We couldn’t change who we were or what had happened.

~ Laura Anderson Kurk

Sometimes, in the stillness of my room, my mom’s voice came to me, repeating things she’d said for months. Like, “My skin is melting off my face, isn’t it?” And, “My whole body feels dead from the crap they’re pouring into me. Do I look green to you?” And, “When I’m naked, I can see my heart beating.

~ Laura Anderson Kurk

Mary Lou suddenly realizes that Mack calls the temperature number because he is afraid to talk on the telephone, and by listening to a recording, he doesn’t have to reply. It’s his way of pretending that he’s involved. He wants it to snow so he won’t have to go outside. He is afraid of what might happen. But it occurs to her that what he must really be afraid of is women. Then Mary Lou feels so sick and heavy with her power over him that she wants to cry. She sees the way her husband is standing there in a frozen pose. Mack looks as though he could stand there all night with the telephone receiver against his ear.

~ Bobbie Ann Mason

When Dad was in the middle of a description of the hotel’s laundry facility, I interrupted. “Why haven’t you told me today, like you do every day, that Mom’s going to be better soon?”He looked up then. His gaze locked with mine and held a promise that no matter what he said or didn’t say, he and I would ride this out together. “I haven’t told you that today, Meg, because I don’t know.

~ Laura Anderson Kurk

He meant everything he said, when he said it. But this is his default. And it won out. Right now you're depressed about one thing. Before you were depressed about everything. These are good times for you.I'm afraid of loving again. I'm afraid I've lost my faith.You haven't.The trapdoor I have in my mind? That can go to those bad places? It's almost gave way again.You know the ways to keep it nailed shut.

~ Emma Forrest

She felt happy these days, yet there was always an undercurrent of sadness just below the surface

~ Diane Chamberlain

There are times when I'm caught up in everything and I have to say to myself, Please feel good; please feel better; everything's okay; you're fine; things aren't falling apart; take a second; get back to a place where you realize that you don't actually have real problems. That happens. You never know when those tables are gonna turn... For me, confidence is something that can come crashing down in one second.

~ Taylor Swift

In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past—sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.

~ George Eliot

Bodily haste and exertion usually leave our thoughts very much at the mercy of our feelings and imagination.

~ George Eliot

Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.

~ Wendell Berry

It felt like this was never going to end. The world wasn't going to stop crashing down until there was nothing left of me but dust.

~ Keary Taylor

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 suppliant, whose fears prevent his words, will be well understood by the Most High.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

If fretting was an Olympic sport, I’d own the gold medal

~ Lori Hatcher

You must learn to tell worry from thought and thought from prayer. Sometimes a light will go from your life, and a thought becomes a prayer til you are strong enough to stand under the weight of your own thought again.

~ Richard Llewellyn

She inhaled a worry. She exhaled a prayer. Mary Lou Quinlan, author

~ Mary Lou Quinlan

Memory is a barricade against forgetting; light is a bulwark against darkness; life is a flex against the stillness of the grave. Maybe that's what I'm trying to do here, clear a space in all the debris, through all the anxieties and worries, where I can just exist, easily and simply, entire, for as long as I have left.

~ Helen Humphreys

. . as A martial arts teacher, we should never forget the first time we stepped onto the Dojo ground, remembering this, we will be better equipped to teach the next generation of Karate practitioners

~ Soke Behzad Ahmadi

Sometimes your belief system is really your fears attached to rules.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You don't have to apologize for loving someone or wanting a life that no longer fits your blueprint. The beginning phase of reclaiming your life always starts with apologizing to yourself, then apologizing to others for wasting their time because of your fear based decisions. The truth is when we eliminate fear we often find the real path we were meant to be on.

~ Shannon L. Alder

People who are diagnosed as having generalized anxiety disorder are afflicted by three major problems that many of us experience to a lesser extent from time to time. First and foremost, says Rapgay, the natural human inclination to focus on threats and bad news is strongly amplified in them, so that even significant positive events get suppressed. An inflexible mentality and tendency toward excessive verbalizing make therapeutic intervention a further challenge.

~ Winifred Gallagher

You are the biggest enemy of your own sleep.

~ Pawan Mishra

The traditional techniques used in getting sleep aren’t much effective any longer and our sleep techniques need to evolve as rapidly as our life style has, in order to cope with it.

~ Pawan Mishra

The Sleep Problem today is not as much about being able to sleep for 7 hours, it is more about being able to sleep when you are ready to.

~ Pawan Mishra

If the world leaders can afford a 7 hours sleep, most of us probably can too.

~ Pawan Mishra

Let’s imagine a running washing machine. Let’s imagine the dirty clothes in the machine and how the liquid detergent is getting the dirt out of clothes and draining it to the waste outlet. Now imagine brain surrounded by a large pool of cleaning fluid called CSF (cerebrospinal fluid). Imagine CSF pulling the wastes from inside the brain and draining it into the blood, which routes it to the waste outlets. CSF clears waste many times faster in sleeping brain than in the waking brain.

~ Pawan Mishra

Tonight is going to be a big night, like any other night, because certain 10 million Americans will not be able to sleep well tonight.

~ Pawan Mishra

Our current bittersweet relationship with our sleep hasn’t had a long history.

~ Pawan Mishra

Our faster than ever evolution has resulted in our undermining certain incredibly important aspects of humanity—like our sleep.

~ Pawan Mishra

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.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Compulsive reading relieves the anxiety that comes from tramping through the forest of meditation in search of clearings.

~ Sylvain Tesson

This is the law of nature that every person who is born has to go through certain kind of painful experiences. Thepainful issues keep coming throughout life.As you progress on the spiritual path their impact become lesser and lesser and finally a stage would come where you can achieve liberation from Stress and unhappiness forever.-Subodh Gupta author, Stress Management a Holistic Approach -5 steps Plan.

~ Subodh Gupta

Feelings and stories of unworthiness and shame are perhaps the most binding element in the trance of fear. When we believe something is wrong with us, we are convinced we are in danger. Our shame fuels ongoing fear, and our fear fuels more shame. The very fact that we feel fear seems to prove that we are broken or incapable. When we are trapped in trance, being fearful and bad seem to define who we are. The anxiety in our body, the stories, the ways we make excuses, withdraw or lash out—these become to us the self that is most real.

~ Tara Brach

He who cares for the sparrows and numbers the hairs of our head, cannot possibly fail us.

~ Hannah Whitall Smith

The only way to find peace is to face the unknown and trust that God has heard your tears.

~ Shannon L. Alder

When we are anxiously attached, our inability to trust the intentions and behaviors of others will often lead us to escalate situations and then reject attempts to reassure us. It is a painful and dramatic spiral.

~ Mary Crocker Cook