People like to talk a lot about me, about how I have anxiety or social disorders. I'll admit to anxiety, but it… — Nate Diaz Copy Share Image
“I quickly got used to being picked up by my mother, and taken to the air raid shelter near our home. Although… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
I should perhaps warn you that I am about to faint from anxiety and general depression, though. The film I saw last… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
I've always been a reformer all the time I served in public office, and remain a reformer in Ohio, but I also… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
And yet, within her anxiety, secured there like a gemstone, she carries the cool and curious power of occasionally being able to… — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
When dreaded outcomes are actually imminent we don't worry about themwe take action. Seeing lava from the local volcano make its way… — Gavin de Becker Copy Share Image
“All his life, ever since he was really small, Milo had been very bothered by sudden changes of plan. More than bothered.… — Kate Milford Copy Share Image
Who is open without levity; generous without waste; secret without craft; humble without meanness; bold without insolence; cautious without anxiety; regular, yet… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Do not worry! Earthly goods deceive the human heart into believing that they give it security and freedom from worry. But in… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“I am stupid, am I not? What more can I want? If you ask them who is brave--who is true--who is just--who… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I recently read in the book My Stroke of Insight by brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor that the natural life span of… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Imagine your mind as a garden and thoughts as the seeds you plant. Habitual negative, unhealthy, self-critical thoughts produce the weeds and… — Sue Thoele Copy Share Image
“Anxiety Whenever you are tense and anxious, your thoughts speed up, triggering you to accelerate your speaking pace, too. The more adrenaline… — Bill McGowan Copy Share Image
“Her voice sounded much cooler than she felt. Inside, her internal organs were grinding themselves into nervous pulp. Her intestines were gone.… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“When I read, I read desperately because I was desperate — desperate to exchange my own anxious thoughts for the calming thoughts… — Sean Norris Copy Share Image
“Whether it's anger, panic, doubt, tension, nervousness or pressure…you can't let your emotions throw you! That's the thing you've really gotta learn…to… — Yumi Hotta Copy Share Image
Soul-the spiritual principle, the creative spark of God-cannot work if you panic. Anxiety shuts down the creative centers. When you can't think,… — Harold Klemp Copy Share Image
“How'd you know that would help, Grandma? Used to have a regular who had attacks like that all the time. Poor guy.… — Jennifer LeBlanc Copy Share Image
It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
That 'change makes us uncomfortable' is now one of the most widely promoted, widely accepted, and under-considered half-truths around. [I]t is not… — Robert Kegan Copy Share Image
We must learn to cast off our anxieties because we have so many of them. The world destroys spiritual life by generating… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Should poor souls fear a shade or night, Who came sure from a sea of light? Or since those drops are all… — Henry Vaughan Copy Share Image
“Most of us respond with panic when we get what we want. The moment of victory is often the moment of greatest… — Mohadesa Najumi Copy Share Image
the tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and present -- are often incomprehensible to outsiders,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
One of the worst features about worrying is that it destroys our ability to concentrate. When we worry, our minds jump here… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
“Anxiety is a state of apprehension, uncertainty, and fear resulting from the anticipation of a realistic or fantasized threatening event or situation.… — Jed Diamond Copy Share Image
I feel incredibly lucky to have grown up with creative parents and around creative people, many of whom live with anxiety. My… — Mabel Copy Share Image
But man has other needs as well: emotional needs. These, too, are few, but every bit as important as his physical requirements,… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
Rebel Heart changed everything. First of all, it drove me insane - and made me feel an overwhelming sense of anxiety. It… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Be carefree yet careful: While you should work on overcoming unnecessary worrying, have a healthy fear of danger and sensibly guard yourself… — Zelig Pliskin Copy Share Image
“In classic experiments on stress, people performed tasks that required concentration, like solving puzzles, while being blasted at random intervals with uncomfortably… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“I was moving in a narrow range between busy distractedness and a pervasive sadness whose granules seemed to enter each cell, weighing… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
The feeling that was born that night, how could i describe it?Words like love or lust just don't seem right. I may… — Ai Yazawa Copy Share Image
“Fear manifested as anxiety interferes with our ability to see reality. Fear arouses a need in us to avoid, run away from,… — Virginia Ritterbusch Copy Share Image
Families have always been in flux and often in crisis; they have never lived up to nostalgic notions about "the way things… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
A friend of mine tells me that a Beethoven symphony can solve for him a problem of conduct. I've no doubt that… — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
You can eliminate depression without making someone happy. You can cure anxiety without teaching someone optimism. You can return someone to work… — Shawn Achor Copy Share Image
And worrying is less work than doing something to fix the worry. This is especially true if we're careful to pick the… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“the stress created by information overload, physical clutter, and the endless choices required from these things can trigger an array of mental… — S.J. Scott Copy Share Image
![“That 'change makes us uncomfortable' is now one of the most widely promoted, widely accepted, and under-considered half-truths around. [I]t is not change by itself that makes us uncomfortable; it is not even change that involves taking on something very difficult. Rather, it is change that leaves…” quote by Robert Kegan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aed/robert-kegan-23287_accepted_that-change-makes-us-uncomfortable-is-no_2750455.jpg)
