- “The best way to ease your anxiety while waiting for a decision is to move into your alter ego.” ― Tapan Ghosh
- “Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” ― Søren Kierkegaard , The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin
- Thought is responsible for fear. Thought is responsible for pleasure. Jiddu Krishnamurti
- “I remember being scared that something must, surely, go wrong, if we were this happy, her and me, in the early days, when our love was settling into the shape of our lives like cake mixture reaching the corners of the tin as it swells and bakes.” ― Max Porter, Grief is the Thing with Feathers
- “Don’t dull the voice of your heart just to please your brainAs it swells into overthought and the desire to be rightSwitch on the light of your inner lamp. Listen to your heart so you can feel from your soulDon’t discount your heart to make your logic fit.” ― Christine Evangelou, Rocks Into Roses: Life Lessons and Inspiration for Personal Growth
- “Whether we know it or choose to admit it, we are either an Encourager or a Discourager. We each make a choice as to which type we will be… every day. Discouragers bring “stresspools.”I call any of those places that add unnecessary stress and aggravation “stresspools.” They are just as stinky and rotten as cesspools, but “stresspools” wreak of tension, strain, anxiety, worry, hassle, pressure, and emotional trauma.” ― Cathy Burnham Martin, The Bimbo Has Brains: And Other Freaky Facts
- The universe doesn’t allow perfection. Stephen Hawking
- “Everything hurts right now and nothing is helping because as the pain is getting worse — so is the love.” ― Jennifer Elisabeth
- “Self-observation is the first step of inner unfolding.” ― Amit Ray, Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style
- Excitement and emotion arise when something is not understood. As it is understood, one naturally becomes unfazed. One naturally becomes equanimous. Kapil Gupta
- “It’s no good to physically distance yourself from someone in your life, if you’re just gonna let them live in your mind.” ― Curtis Tyrone Jones
- Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment. Thich Nhat Hanh
- “Now through her aching, Helen felt a flicker of peace as though Mum was there, placing a hand on Helen’s shoulder and saying, “Come now. The world is always a brighter place on a full stomach. Help me—it will go faster that way.” In the stillness of the kitchen they used to work, Helen’s light hair and Mum’s dark bent over the bowl. Mum would not prod or fill the silence with chatter, but used the recipe to call Helen back to herself. She would pop a currant into her daughter’s mouth, or gently instruct her to smell the cinnamon, and for Helen, the world would come into focus.” ― Corinne Beenfield
- “People hate people a lot, so people suffer from anxiety” ― Anuj Jasani
- “Worry less, pray more.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
- The ultimate purpose of inquiry is that it allows us to pause. In the space of a pause, truth can shine through. Tara Brach (Radical Acceptance)
- “I feel a resurgence of my 6-year-old self… that little warrior, goddess of a girl reminding me of who I was when I was little, before the world got its hands on me.” ― Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
- It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase. David Foster Wallace (Infinite Jest, Amazon Book)
- “Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly.” ― Ali Ibn Abi Talib AS
- “Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else.” ― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
- Cultivate play and rest: let go of exhaustion as a status symbol and productivity as self-worth. Brené Brown
- Don’t underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering. Winnie the Pooh
- “John Quincy Adams’ depression was treated by his aunt with some reliable remedies, first sleep and then compassion. She said, ” He was half cared for by having someone to care for him.” ― Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
- “When feeling lonely or anxious, most of us have the habit of looking for distractions, which often leads to some form of unwholesome consumption — whether eating a snack in the absence of hunger, mindlessly surfing the Internet, going on a drive, or reading. Conscious breathing is a good way to nourish body and mind with mindfulness.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh, Silence: The Power of Quiet in a World Full of Noise
- “It’s not impermanence per se, or even knowing we’re going to die, that is the cause of our suffering, the Buddha taught. Rather, it’s our resistance to the fundamental uncertainty of our situation. Our discomfort arises from all of our efforts to put ground under our feet, to realize our dream of constant okayness. When we resist change, it’s called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness of our situation and relax into its dynamic quality, that’s called enlightenment, or awakening to our true nature, to our fundamental goodness. Another word for that is freedom—freedom from struggling against the fundamental ambiguity of being human.” ― Pema Chödrön, Living Beautifully: with Uncertainty and Change
- He who hurries through life hurries to his grave. George R. R. Martin (A Clash of Kings, 1999)
- When we’re anxious, disconnected, vulnerable, alone, and feeling helpless, the booze and food and work and endless hours online feel like comfort, but in reality they’re only casting their long shadows over our lives. Brené Brown (Daring Greatly, Amazon Book)
- Don’t worry about achieving. Don’t worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can. Pema Chödrön
- “I believe there are only three businesses: my business, other people’s business, and God’s business.” ― Tobe Hanson, The Four Seasons Way of Life:: Ancient Wisdom for Healing and Personal Growth
- What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking it is painful, and that when we imagine we have found it, we don’t like it. Alan Watts