People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
Cuddling literally kills depression, relieves anxiety and strengthens the immune system.
My Anxieties Have Anxieties.
Anxiety is like quicksand, the harder we struggle to escape, the deeper we sink.
God didn’t do it all in one day. What makes me think I can?
Anxiety is one little tree in your forest. Step back and look at the whole forest.
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
My need to solve the problem is the problem.
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.
Stress is caused by being ‘here’ but wanting to be ‘there.’
If worrying were an Olympic sport, you’d get the gold for sure.
Worry is a misuse of imagination.
Worrying is like walking around with an umbrella waiting for it to rain.
Felling like you’re about to cry when someone points out you’re doing something wrong.
A hundred-load of worry will not pay an ounce of debt.
For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe.
Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.
The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness.
Anxiety’s like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you very far.
Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.
Although anxiety is part of life, never let it control you.
I refuse to be burdened by vague worries. If something wants to worry me, it will have to make itself clear.
That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.
If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you’ll die a lot of times.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
You can’t always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.
Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.
If you always make excuses to not follow through you deserve the weight of anxiety on your chest.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbors.
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
Never fear shadows. They simply mean there’s a light shining somewhere nearby.
It’s sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age.
We carry our prisons with us.
Anxiety is not being able to sleep because you said something wrong two years ago and can’t stop thinking about it.
I get nervous about everything, sometimes I literally don’t know why I’m anxious, I just am and no-one seems to understand that.
There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry… Yesterday and Tomorrow
Worry is an addiction that interferes with compassion.
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
It only seems as if you are doing something when you’re worrying.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Worry is like a rocking chair—it gives you something to do, but it won’t get you anywhere!
People gather bundles of sticks to build bridges they never cross.
I’ve developed a new philosophy… I only dread one day at a time.
If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I’d have fewer imaginary ones.
You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
I promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems. Nothing is worth your health. Nothing is worth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and fear.
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die.