Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries.
Fear results in fight or flight. Anxiety creates doom and gloom. Fear is the pulse that pounds when you see a coiled rattlesnake in your front yard. Anxiety is the voice that tells you, Never, ever, for the rest of your life, walk barefooted through the grass. There might be a snake...somewhere.
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
Worry is like rocking in a rocking chair all day, because it keeps you busy but gets you nowhere.
Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.
If you're nervous about doing something, plan to do it badly, giving yourself credit for just doing it. That takes a weight off your shoulders because anyone can do something badly.
Another simple and powerful way to dissolve problems is not to dwell upon the outcome of your actions. Instead, learn to value each action (no matter how small or large), to do it with complete attention. Your joy and satisfaction comes from doing each action with a whole heart and mind. Results and consequences then take care of themselves. When you are not absorbed by concern for outcomes, how much anxiety can you ever have?
The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness".
Anxiety uses imagination to picture something you don't want. Vision uses imagination to picture something you DO want. Either way, you tend to get what you focus on. Imagine a future where you shine, others thrive, and the light of hope shines brighter in the world. If you can see it, you can be it.
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.
I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack.
Often Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
If you keep in mind that love and love alone is the reason for living, it will calm your heart and free you from your worries.
Fear plays an interesting role in our lives. How dare we let it motivate us. How dare we let it into our decision-making, into our livelihoods, into our relationships. It's funny, isn't it? We take a day a year to dress up in costumes and celebrate fear.
Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
One of the primary reasons why people struggle financially is because they cannot control their emotion of fear.
We fear only what we haven’t understood.
The greatest prison people live in is the fear of what other people think.
Worrying gets you nowhere. If you turn up worrying about how you're going to perform, you've already lost. Train hard, turn up, run your best and the rest will take care of itself.
Depressed, anxious, sad, frightened? Yes. But I've never been bored.
Stop worrying and start living.
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
The thing about those conditions [anxiety and depression] that sucks the worst is that you don't address the root cause, so you never see it coming. What's worse is when you don't even KNOW what the root cause is, you can never fix the problem. So that's what's really scary.
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