Anxiety Quotes - Page 9

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.

Those who are certain of the outcome can afford to wait, and wait without anxiety.

The other matter to which we beg leave to refer in candor has been the anxiety shown for the Constitution and civil liber­ties because of alleged dictatorial, impatient and vindictive tendencies on our part. This concern is without basis in fact.

The moment before I jump is filled with anxiety and what-ifs. But then as soon as I enter the air, I'm filled with this calmness and that's the main attraction to it. That's why I do these death-consequence pursuits or arts.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety.

I am unable to describe exactly what is the matter with me; now and then there are horrible fits of anxiety, apparently without cause, or otherwise a feeling of emptiness and fatigue in the head.

Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.

Zen Master Dogen has pointed out that anxiety, when accepted, is the driving force to enlightenment in that it lays bare the human dilemma at the same time that it ignites our desire to break out of it.

Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.

Can any deny that in the modern church setup the main cause of anxiety is money? Yet that which tries the modern churches the most, troubled the New Testament Church the least. Our emphasis is on paying; theirs was on praying. When we have paid, the place is taken; when they had prayed, the place was shaken!

The experience of separateness arouses anxiety; it is, indeed, the source of all anxiety.

I think one thing that does cause unhappiness is protracted anxiety and worry.

Don't be forecasting evil unless it is what you can guard against. Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it into a defense.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

Courage has to do with controlling fear and it seems to me that focus has a way of overcoming anxiety.

There is always a state of anxiety, of searching and delving for style.

A warrior of the light...never confuses tension with anxiety.

The anxiety of fate is conquered by the self-affirmation of the individual as an infinitely significant microcosmic representation of the universe .

Among the most disheartening and dangerous of . . . advisors, you will often find those closest to you, your dearest friends, members of your own family, perhaps, loving, anxious, and knowing nothing whatever . . .

You forgive yourself for every failure because you are trying to do the right thing. God knows that and you know it. Nobody else may know it.

When I was 15 or 16 - I slept really well then. Now I sleep on a bed of anxiety-tipped nails.

Anxiety is extremely contagious, but so is calm.

Hope . . . is one of the ways in which what is merely future and potential is made vividly present and actual to us. Hope is the positive, as anxiety is the negative, mode of awaiting the future.

The ancient Greek "oral poets" all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the muse to help them remember.