Anxiety Quotes

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  No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.

  Alan Watts

  Differences, Worry, Happens

  Alan Watts (2017). “Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence, and the Cosmic Game of Hide and Seek”, p.93, Sounds True

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

  Deepak Chopra

  Creativity, Imagination, Use

  Twitter post from Sep 26, 2012

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• Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

  Dale Carnegie

  Funny, Faith, Time

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living”, p.372, Simon and Schuster

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• Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

  Khalil Gibran

  Thinking, Worry, Doe

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• Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Moving, Two, Worry

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  The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

  William James

  Happiness, Fear, Stress

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  One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.22, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• I have reared, or helped to rear, five children and the scariest bit, bar none, is the learning to drive part. It has filled me with anxiety not only about the children, but also about my former self and my friends.

  Jane Smiley

  Children, Self, Bars

  "Driving: a parent's nightmare" by Jane Smiley, www.theguardian.com. July 9, 2010.

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• The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God....Music is a gift and grace of God, not an invention of men. Thus it drives out the devil and makes people cheerful. Then one forgets all wrath, impurity, and other devices.

  Martin Luther

  Music, Men, Wrath

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• Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Hands, Belief

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• Bringing people into the here-and-now. The real universe. That's the present moment. The past is no good to us. The future is full of anxiety. Only the present is real--the here-and-now. Seize the day.

  Saul Bellow

  Real, Past, People

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• It's like a mother, when the baby is crying, she picks up the baby and she holds the baby tenderly in her arms. Your pain, your anxiety is your baby. You have to take care of it. You have to go back to yourself, to recognize the suffering in you, embrace the suffering, and you get a relief.

  Nhat Hanh

  Mother, Baby, Pain

  FaceBook post by Thich Nhat Hanh from Dec 22, 2013

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• Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God's medicine.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Happiness, Laughter, Oil

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Royal truths”, p.241

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• If you reflect within yourself and find nothing to be ashamed of, how could you have anxiety or fear.

  Confucius

  Spirituality, Ashamed, Ifs

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• It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

  Epictetus

  Love, Depressing, Pain

  Epictetus (1944). “Epictetus: Discourses and Enchiridion”

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• Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Short Life, Men, Normal

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• The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.

  Charles Lamb

  Human Nature, Cowardice, Infirmity

  Charles Lamb (1867). “The essays of Elia. [Followed by] The last essays of Elia”, p.219

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• If you are bent on assuming a pose and never reveal yourself to anyone frankly, in the fashion of many who live a false life that is all made up for show; for it is torturous to be constantly watching oneself and be fearful of being caught out of our usual role. And we are never free from concern if we think that every time anyone looks at us he is always taking-our measure; for many things happen that strip off our pretence against our will, and, though all this attention to self is successful, yet the life of those who live under a mask cannot be happy and without anxiety.

  Seneca the Younger

  Fashion, Integrity, Successful

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• The moment I realized God existed, I knew that I could not do othewise than to live for Him Alone...Faith strips the mask from the world and renders meaningless such words as anxiety, danger and fear, so the believer goes through life calmly and peacefully, with profound joy--like a child, hand and hand with his mother.

  Charles de Foucauld

  God, Faith, Mother

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• Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Simple Life, Comfort, Materialism

  Oliver Goldsmith (1833). “Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With a New Life of the Author”, p.178

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• Solitude is the mother of anxieties.

  Publilius Syrus

  Mother, Solitude

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 222, 1856.

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• After all, catching something is purely a by-product of our fishing. It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief, lightens all worry, dissolves fear and anxiety.

  Gladys Taber

  Grief, Fishing, Worry

  "The book of Stillmeadow".

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• Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Funny, Oil, Life Is

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.154

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• Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Wisdom, Stress, People

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• Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at all.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Taken, Preparation, Life Is

  Leo Tolstoy (2014). “My Religion”, p.164, The Floating Press

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