Anxiety Quotes - Page 43

Any decrease of anxiety is a step toward love.

You believe that you live in the world, where in fact the world lives within you.

Thanks to the circus between my ears, I can seize upon the smallest disquieting observation and from it extrapolate a terror of cataclysmic proportions.

There's this point between conscious and subconscious when you realize you were asleep and resting, and you were having all kinds of anxiety dreams about the film and all the things that can go wrong. You get in this hypnagogic state, where you're waking up and realizing, "Oh, it was just a dream."

Fear and anxiety are great motivators for me.

You will say that I am old and mad, was what Michaelangelo wrote, but I answer that there is no better way of being sane and free from anxiety than by being mad.

When we try to find our sense of security, value, worth from our work, we'll find ourselves anxiety-ridden and burdened.

There's a weird kind of paradox that the more expensive the vacation is, the more potentially anxiety-producing it is.

I think making any art requires a certain degree of high anxiety and total abandon.

Relativity was a highly technical new theory that gave new meanings to familiar concepts and even to the nature of the theory itself. The general public looked upon relativity as indicative of the seemingly incomprehensible modern era, educated scientists despaired of ever understanding what Einstein had done, and political ideologues used the new theory to exploit public fears and anxieties-all of which opened a rift between science and the broader culture that continues to expand today.

Fear and anxiety were exploited by zealots and fools.

When a patient tells a doctor that every symptom is the most horrible ever - and the physical exam and labs are normal - we often suspect something psychological is going on. The symptoms aren't fake. They're physical manifestations of anxiety, depression, and stress. So while I'm always on the lookout for a serious underlying disease.

For people who have been raised on text-based interactions, just speaking on the telephone can be high bandwidth to the point of anxiety.

For the high achievers, studying gave them the pleasing, absorbing challenge of flow 40 percent of the hours they spent at it. But for low achievers, studying produced flow only 16 percent of the time; more often that not, it yielded anxiety, with the demands outreaching their abilities...The low achievers found pleasure and flow in socializing, not in studying.

Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself when apparent to the eyes ; and we find the burden of anxiety greater, by much, than the evil which we are anxious about.

I grew up very self-loathing. I was a phobic. I had anxiety. I had panic attacks.

Life is like The Muppet Show, but instead of Muppets there's anxiety.

One of the most effective ways to overcome anxiety is to try to shift the focus of attention away from self and toward others.

This we can all bear witness to, living as we do plagued by unremitting anxiety . It becomes more and more imperative that the life of the spirit be avowed as the only firm basis upon which to establish happiness and peace.

In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

Yet even the rich have their own kind of suffering, anxiety, doubt, and fear. So in many cases, wealthy people aren't happy! And once those with material wealth encounter small difficulties, their amount of mental suffering is sometimes bigger than it is for those who have faced such difficulties every day.

To be totally honest, if I could be thinner without it causing a lot of pain and anxiety in my life, I would be. But today the reality is my life is more important to me than my weight - and thank God for that.

Everybody's still miserable in the same way they've always been miserable, and more and more of my friends - especially my male friends - find themselves taking anti-anxiety, psychotropic drugs. It seems like everybody I know is wondering if they're really who they are, or once the prescription runs out, will they become someone different?

Stress and anxiety cause our brains to release chemicals that put lines in our faces and tear us down emotionally and spiritually.

My touchstone is just fear and anxiety and I know a lot about those two awful emotions.