Anxiety Quotes - Page 16

Confronting the worst-case scenario saps it of much of its anxiety-inducing power. Happiness reached via positive thinking can be fleeting and brittle, negative visualization generates a vastly more dependable calm.

If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.

I'd seen too many troubling things to be easy in my mind. I knew too much and not enough. I'd better go out, I said to myself, I'd better go out again.

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.

Unfortunately, on one or both of my shoulders sits lots of anxiety and that is a controlling factor in my life.

Mum and dad were very much friends, and up to life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up, they just taught me to be me.

We are opinionated society. We're very happy to spout forth our own views; we're not good about listening. We have to listen to other's stories. Learn to listen to the stories of the terrorists just as we hope that they will listen to ours because very often these narratives express frustrations, fears, and anxieties that most societies can safely ignore.

Release all the anxiety that keeps you from moving ahead. Keep breathing it out and letting it go.

First we have to understand what doubts and fears are, how anxiety and doubts and fears come about. They are a psychic disease.

When I was young, I was just about hard work. But as I got older, I did experience anxiety, doubt, judgment, and it's so easy to lose yourself for a second.

Forgive yourself for believing that youre anything less than beautiful.

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

No one who is in a state of fear or sorrow or tension is free, but whosoever is delivered from sorrows or fears or anxieties is at the same time delivered from servitude.

Anxiety checks learning. A feeling of well being and respect stimulates an alert mind.

We are living in a new age of energy supply anxiety.

Every day I pray. I yield myself to God and the tensions and anxieties go out of me and peace and power come in.

If you have an anxiety lay it down before The Lord

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!

We fear only what we haven’t understood.

When desire dies, fear is born.

The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.

Conscious attention is a designed function of the brain which scans the environment for any trouble making changes. If you identify yourself with your trouble shooter, then naturally you define yourself as being in a perpetual state of anxiety.

Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them.

In the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation.

It is not possible for me to bear alone such labours and the burden of such weighty cares as press on me from hour to hour, without one man at my side to help me. I have not a soul to aid me in all my anxieties and toils.