Anxiety Quotes - Page 6

No human thing is of serious importance.

Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out.

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!"

In fact most of what we call anxiety is overconcern about what someone thinks of you.

If we could make up our minds to spare our friends all details of ill health, of money losses, of domestic annoyances, of altercations, of committee work, of grievances, provocations, and anxieties, we should sin less against the world's good-humor. It may not be given us to add to the treasury of mirth; but there is considerable merit in not robbing it.

The renowned seventh-century Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being "without anxiety about imperfection.

If you can believe, worry and anxiety will vanish

It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.

Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.

A story communicates fear, hope, and anxiety, and because we can feel it, we get the moral not just as a concept, but as a teaching of our hearts. That’s the power of story.

If you didn't have anxiety, then you wouldn't have passion for anything. The reason we have anxiety is because you care and you're thoughtful.

One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.

Many teenagers are tormented by terrors they deem private and personal. They do not know that their anxieties and doubts are universal.

Resign every forbidden joy; restrain every wish that is not referred to God's will; banish all eager desires, all anxiety; desire only the will of God; seek him alone and supremely, and you will find peace.

If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

One of our anxieties is de-focusing the relatively small number of engineers we have. Within our own core development, I am reluctant to fund projects that are way afield of where we are.

The best use of imagination is creativity. The worst use of imagination is anxiety.

Anxiety must go. It must be replaced by faith and solemn confidence in the outworking of the divine plan.

A lot of my fears and anxieties are the fears and anxieties of a six-year-old boy. When I finally confront them, they're really small.

the tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it does not cause happiness – it merely causes a flash of pleasure followed by weariness, and it is always accompanied, of course, by the anxiety that you may lose the object of your attachment.

Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their adjustment to external conditions.

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

The lens of fear magnifies the size of uncertainty.

Anxiety is not to be managed it is a sin that needs to be repented of

Any kind of creative activity is likely to be stressful. The more anxiety, the more you feel that you are headed in the right direction. Easiness, relaxation, comfort - these are not conditions that usually accompany serious work.