Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. Votes: 3
Albert CamusThe greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. Votes: 3
William JamesAnxiety checks learning. A feeling of well being and respect stimulates an alert mind. Votes: 3
Eda LeShanAnxiety is love's greatest killer, because it is like the stranglehold of the drowning. Votes: 3
Anais NinAnxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence. Votes: 3
Joseph Wood KrutchOther Definitions of Worry Anxiety is the great modern plague. But faith can cure it. Votes: 3
Smiley BlantonAnxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength. Votes: 3
Charles SpurgeonIt was impossible to sleep. Anxiety stopped me from falling asleep; depression woke me up. Votes: 3
David WalliamsPeople become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them. Votes: 3
George Bernard ShawFear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me. Votes: 3
Isabel AllendeAnxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. Votes: 3
Tryon EdwardsFreeing Your Child from Anxiety is an excellent book, one of the best of its kind. Votes: 3
Judith S. BeckAnxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever. Votes: 3
Alan WattsThe only real difference between Anxiety and Excitement was my willingness to let go of Fear. Votes: 3
Barbara Brown TaylorAnxiety comes into existence only when we become identified with small things. And they all pass. Votes: 3
RajneeshIf you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath. Votes: 3
Amit RayWhen you get over the anxiety, you discover you should have been mad a long time ago. Votes: 3
Amy ClampittI don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. Votes: 3
Bill CosbyWorrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere. Votes: 3
Glenn TurnerI think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells. Votes: 3
Terence McKennaAnxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment. Votes: 3
Nhat HanhAnxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered in anything short of God and His will. Votes: 3
Billy GrahamI got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety. Votes: 3
Barry LevinsonNeither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety. Votes: 1
Rose KennedyEvery faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself Votes: 1
Mark RutherfordNothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape Votes: 1
George SantayanaDo you want to know the surefire way to stay anxious? Don't do the thing that makes you nervous! Votes: 1
Larina KaseI have bizarre anxiety about being in a city - I have no idea who I am or where I am. Votes: 1
Dakota JohnsonI try not to worry about the future - so I take each day just one anxiety attack at a time. Votes: 1
Tom WilsonThe neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued. Votes: 0
Mignon McLaughlinBeyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting. Votes: 0
Jorge Luis BorgesSkepticism relieved two terrible diseases that afflicted mankind: anxiety and dogmatism. Votes: 0
Sextus EmpiricusPerceived self-inefficacy predicts avoidance of academic activities whereas anxiety does not Votes: 0
Albert BanduraCharacter begins to form at the first pinch of anxiety about ourselves. Votes: 0
Yevgeny YevtushenkoWhere there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt. Votes: 0
Saint Francis de SalesSatan wants anxiety to hinder us from becoming effective servants of Christ. Votes: 0
Lysa TerKeurstMore time [to decide] without more information just creates anxiety, not insight. Votes: 0
Seth GodinPanic---a deep abiding, free-floating anxiety, often without any reason or logical basis. Votes: 0
Nelson DeMilleOnce you know the emotional building blocks of anxiety, you can influence them. Votes: 0
Chip ConleyI watch worry and anxiety being pandered to through technology which is neutral. Votes: 0
Brian RichardsonThe moment I started treating my social anxiety disorder, I started feeling better. Votes: 0
Ricky WilliamsThe wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety. Votes: 0
Alexandra David-NeelTo suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal. Votes: 0
Boyd K. PackerWhenever you avoid alarming situations, you almost always increase your anxiety about them. Votes: 0
Albert EllisWe like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough. Votes: 0
Augustus William HareThe surest way to escape anxiety and defeat despair is action. Do, don't dwell. Votes: 0
Michael JosephsonThe best use of imagination is creativity. The worst use of imagination is anxiety. Votes: 0
Deepak ChopraI'm generally a people-pleaser so I get high anxiety from any sort of confrontation. Votes: 0
Rose ByrnePeople still have existential anxiety. It just may not be expressed in Hebraic idiom. Votes: 0
Woody AllenWe are living in an era of anxiety produced by computer and communications technology. Votes: 0
Mitch KaporThere is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood. Votes: 0
W. Somerset MaughamI think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety. Votes: 0
Anne EnrightWhatever solace the Christian faith could give was balanced by the anxiety it generated. Votes: 0
Barbara TuchmanThe experience of separateness arouses anxiety; it is, indeed, the source of all anxiety. Votes: 0
Erich FrommEducation is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man. Votes: 0
Wendell PhillipsYou can't use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious. Votes: 0
Bill CrawfordIt did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase. Votes: 0
David Foster WallaceThose who are certain of the outcome can afford to wait, and wait without anxiety. Votes: 0
Gabrielle BernsteinThe screenwriters I know share a few personality traits and one of them is anxiety. Votes: 0
Tony GilroyI think making any art requires a certain degree of high anxiety and total abandon. Votes: 0
David CrabbGrief and constant anxiety kill nearly as many women as men die on the battlefield. Votes: 0
Bill VaughanWork is an antidote for anxiety, an ointment for sorrow, and a doorway to possibility. Votes: 0
Dieter F. UchtdorfThe problem of life is to change worry into thinking and anxiety into creative action. Votes: 0
Harold Bridgwood WalkerThe wise are free from perplexities; the virtuous from anxiety; and the bold from fear. Votes: 0
ConfuciusMen, in whatever anxiety they may be, if they are men, sometimes indulge in relaxation. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroI never had the... common anxiety as to whether abstract painting had a given 'meaning. Votes: 0
Robert MotherwellSometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier. Votes: 0
Ann VoskampNow that I have conquered social anxiety disorder, I find pleasure in fans approaching me. Votes: 0
Ricky WilliamsI have a master's in psychology, and depression and anxiety are considered to be cyclical. Votes: 0
Autre Ne VeutSocial anxiety results from being around people who are resolutely opposed to who you are. Votes: 0
Stefan MolyneuxKnowledge does away with darkness, [anxiety], and doubt; for these cannot exist where knowledge is. Votes: 0
Dieter F. UchtdorfI'm just suggesting that when you're faced with fear and anxiety, don't medicate. Meditate instead. Votes: 0
Russell SimmonsIt is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand. Votes: 0
Peter StuyvesantI grew up very self-loathing. I was a phobic. I had anxiety. I had panic attacks. Votes: 0
Dane CookIt is in great part the anxiety of being a woman that devastates the feminine body. Votes: 0
Simone de BeauvoirIn fact most of what we call anxiety is overconcern about what someone thinks of you. Votes: 0
Albert EllisA person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat. Votes: 0
Rollo MayFree your hearts of anxiety, pain and anger, to have peace within your heart and soul. Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaMy grandpa told me, 'Learn to love anxiety, because it never goes away in moviemaking.' Votes: 0
Gia CoppolaI don't know any woman who doesn't have an anxiety attack about wearing a bathing suit. Votes: 0
Vanessa MarcilTo be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections. Votes: 0
DogenOur anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it. Votes: 0
Kahlil GibranOur anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it. Votes: 0
Khalil GibranTrue friendship must be akin to romance, I think. only without all the anguish and anxiety. Votes: 0
Jacqueline CareyForget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to. Votes: 0
Michael ChabonThere is no actual stress or anxiety in the world, your thoughts create these false beliefs. Votes: 0
Wayne DyerIn the anxiety to get beautiful colour harmony do not exhaust all combinations on one canvas. Votes: 0
John F. CarlsonI always wanted to see people's lives transformed from depression and anxiety to joy and peace. Votes: 0
David D. BurnsAn hour of anxiety cannot change my circumstances, but a minute of prayer can alter everything. Votes: 0
Elbridge BryantMy thoughts suffering a whirlwind of anxiety that slices through me like thousands of paper cuts. Votes: 0
Evelyn Leilou ColonIn 1980, I published my first novel, in the usual swirl of unjustified hope and justified anxiety. Votes: 0
Julian BarnesDepression and anxiety can't fit in your head if you're cultivating feelings of joy and inspiration. Votes: 0
Austin ButlerI always say I am a realist, and my mom says, 'No, you just have anxiety.' Votes: 0
Jessica ChastainDo the tasks that causes you the most fear, anxiety, or stress - and get over it. Votes: 0
Brian TracyMy touchstone is just fear and anxiety and I know a lot about those two awful emotions. Votes: 0
Chris PineI do think non-linearly. So I think that comes off as nervousness or anxiety in a person. Votes: 0
Michaela WatkinsIn the depth of the anxiety of having to die is the anxiety of being eternally forgotten. Votes: 0
Paul TillichI am forever grateful that I got some training in the theater - it reduces performance anxiety. Votes: 0
Julia StilesThe subject [of Los Angeles] became a general metaphor for anxiety and the speed of modern life. Votes: 0
Edward RuschaThere is probably no greater anxiety in life than going home to visit your mother for Christmas. Votes: 0
Suzanne Falter-BarnsFew things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say Votes: 0
George EliotAll your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace. Votes: 0
RumiEach moment of worry, anxiety or stress represents lack of faith in miracles, for they never cease. Votes: 0
T.F. HodgeI believe such passion-even passion born of fear and anxiety-is far better than a life of banality. Votes: 0
Lori NelsonTime spent in nature decreases stress and anxiety and improves focus for adults as well as children. Votes: 0
Laura BushWell, I am now convinced there is no kind of fear or anxiety anyone has to live with. Votes: 0
Ricky WilliamsThe anxiety I feel when I'm late is nothing like the anxiety I feel when I'm on time. Votes: 0
Sade AduNothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape. Votes: 0
George SantayanaThe thing is, I really like working. If I sit around too much, I get really bad anxiety. Votes: 0
GrimesFor most of my life, I was a worrier and an over-thinker. I had pretty bad social anxiety. Votes: 0
Rob CorddryI think the dangers are different now. Our abuse of the planet and our resources is an anxiety Votes: 0
Carol Ann DuffyWhen stress and anxiety have your system stuck in a brainstem loop? Reboot. It's I.T. for life! Votes: 0
Bill CrawfordWhich of these statements creates more anxiety in you: 'There is no God' or 'There is no money'? Votes: 0
Andy StanleyDid you ever see a portrait of a great man without perceiving strong traits of pain and anxiety? Votes: 0
John AdamsRelease all the anxiety that keeps you from moving ahead. Keep breathing it out and letting it go. Votes: 0
Judith OrloffEnjoy the beauty of simplicity and slowness of life, let go of urgency, stress, and anxiety of life. Votes: 0
Debasish MridhaHow I hated this school, and what a life of anxiety I lived there for more than two years. Votes: 0
Winston ChurchillI love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I'm a kid myself. Votes: 0
Zoe SaldanaWhen I was 15 or 16 - I slept really well then. Now I sleep on a bed of anxiety-tipped nails. Votes: 0
James McAvoyEach thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man. Votes: 0
Andre GideThere are two ways to get rid of an anxiety monster,my friend-you either have a bath or a nap. Votes: 0
Andrew KaufmanThe courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt. Votes: 0
Paul TillichThe beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety. Votes: 0
George MullerOur minds can be kept free of anxiety as we dump the load of our cares on the Lord in prayer. Votes: 0
Charles R. SwindollI try not to worry about the future - so I take each day just one anxiety attack at a time. Votes: 3 Tom Wilson
Therapy is not to 'talk about' things, but to change the person's life, and to relieve suffering, such as depression, anxiety, or relationship problems. Votes: 1 David D. Burns
I always wanted to see people's lives transformed from depression and anxiety to joy and peace. Votes: 2 David D. Burns
Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God. Votes: 1 Thomas a Kempis
My fears and anxieties throughout my whole life have been slowly squeezing my voice. Votes: 2 Shania Twain
I often thought I was in the wrong business. I was pretty seriously thinking of tossing it in before I shot Shine. I do not know why. I was pretty restless, I had been through a bad period of stress induced anxiety - panic attacks - and I was not sure of what I wanted to do. Votes: 2 Geoffrey Rush
The feeling of insecurity is inimical to our sense of wellbeing, as it causes anxiety and stress, which harms our physical and mental health. It is no surprise then that, according to some surveys, workers across the world value job security more highly than wages. Votes: 3 Ha-Joon Chang
I think one thing that does cause unhappiness is protracted anxiety and worry. Votes: 7 Derek Bok
I try not to worry about the future - so I take each day just one anxiety attack at a time. Votes: 3 Tom Wilson
And to me, it was interesting, some of the people I had interviewed who knew the insides to this program said that they also, to create anxiety and upset in the soldiers, they take Bibles and they trash them. Votes: 1 Jane Mayer
All the textbooks talk about avoidance as a classic hallmark of anxiety disorder. So you need a therapist who is sympathetic and understanding but will also push you to do precisely the things that scare you. Votes: 4 Scott Stossel
I wanted to put a human face on anxiety disorders. I thought people who suffer from anxiety might recognize themselves and gain some comfort from my story and for those who don't suffer from anxiety disorders gain some understanding. Votes: 3 Scott Stossel
Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship. Votes: 1 Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's funny, there are so many women who are former executives and have taken all that stress and anxiety and transferred it onto their kids. Votes: 1 Ana Gasteyer
My grandpa told me, 'Learn to love anxiety, because it never goes away in moviemaking.' Votes: 1 Gia Coppola
The source of so much of my anxiety in life and the tensions in my relationship is my anxiety about my kid. It's all very abstract and unfounded and ungrounded. Votes: 1 Lisa Cholodenko
And to me, it was interesting, some of the people I had interviewed who knew the insides to this program said that they also, to create anxiety and upset in the soldiers, they take Bibles and they trash them. Votes: 1 Jane Mayer
My grandpa told me, 'Learn to love anxiety, because it never goes away in moviemaking.' Votes: 1 Gia Coppola
The recent discovery of highly specific antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications would not have been possible without the use of animal models Votes: 3 Herb Pardes
It was about this time that I began experiencing the beginnings of my battles with an anxiety disorder. We were touring a lot and there were some developing personal problems within the band. Votes: 1 Jack Irons
I can't even tell you the anxiety I get from being around those cameras! Votes: 2 Zach Woodlee
I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy. Votes: 1 Shawn Johnson
Any anxieties publishers have about putting a child on the front cover of a book who isn't white is very old fashioned. Votes: 1 Malorie Blackman
My parents were not perfect, but no one's parents are. As childhoods go, mine was pretty comfortable and good in a lot of ways, and yet I still ended up with anxiety. Votes: 1 Scott Stossel
Now that I have conquered social anxiety disorder, I find pleasure in fans approaching me. Votes: 1 Ricky Williams
Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man. Votes: 3 Wendell Phillips
Free-diving is all about dealing with anxiety. I've blacked out a few times. I've had big black-outs. Votes: 3 Tanc Sade
I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome, Pandora's box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner. Votes: 3 Irvin D. Yalom
I always wanted to see people's lives transformed from depression and anxiety to joy and peace. Votes: 5 David D. Burns
We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die. Votes: 3 Joko Beck
Obviously I have a capacity for feeling extreme anxiety, and there are people out there who don't. I'm to some extent rather jealous of them. Votes: 3 Mark Haddon
Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale. Votes: 4 Will Durst
The moment I started treating my social anxiety disorder, I started feeling better. Votes: 1 Ricky Williams
Anxiety is a kind of fuel that activates the fight-or-flight part of the brain in me. It makes sure that a velociraptor isn't around the corner and that you do as much as you possibly can to survive. Because Hollywood has a lot in common with 'Jurassic Park' and its primeval-dinosaur universe. Votes: 1 Ben Affleck
People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on. Votes: 2 Eckhart Tolle
When you get over the anxiety, you discover you should have been mad a long time ago. Votes: 1 Amy Clampitt
There are temptations around you all the time. The trick is to work your way through anxiety or your tiredness or whatever, and not let yourself get so hungry that you're going and stopping for the burgers, and you don't view it as reward. You're doing better for yourself is eating better food. Votes: 1 Lisa Ann Walter
If I ignore my work, I start having anxiety attacks. Votes: 3 Rosanne Cash
I definitely have an alter ego that can come out and get me out of situations where I'm having social anxiety. I can take a deep breath and create a bubble so I can perform in some way. Votes: 3 Lindy Booth
I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety. Votes: 4 Barry Levinson
I know just how isolating it can feel to experience severe anxiety. Votes: 1 Zoe Sugg
I love to make songs out of some of those shadows - you know, some of the things you lie awake thinking about, social anxieties and romantic insecurities and all that stuff. Votes: 1 Matt Berninger
One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives. Votes: 1 Polly Toynbee
I hold onto the Scripture that says, 'Be anxious for nothing, but in all things give thanks.' I'm not saying I don't have problems or that I don't worry, but I try not to be stressed. I manage my anxiety through prayer. Worry shows up on your face, and I don't want that! Votes: 1 Kim Fields
Courage has to do with controlling fear and it seems to me that focus has a way of overcoming anxiety. Votes: 4 Tommy Franks
I grew up very self-loathing. I was a phobic. I had anxiety. I had panic attacks. Votes: 1 Dane Cook
Starting the blog was a way for me to generate this nonfiction first-person voice naturally, gradually, without feeling performance anxiety. It felt a bit like keeping journals when I was younger, but connecting to an instant readership without having to wait for publication made it also immediately satisfying. Votes: 4 Kate Christensen
Powerful new drug-free treatments have been developed for depression and for every conceivable type of anxiety, such as chronic worrying, shyness, public speaking anxiety, test anxiety, phobias, and panic attacks. The goal of the treatment is not just partial improvement but full recovery. Votes: 3 David D. Burns
Therapy is not to 'talk about' things, but to change the person's life, and to relieve suffering, such as depression, anxiety, or relationship problems. Votes: 1 David D. Burns
During high school, I would purposely lose tennis and squash matches to escape the agony of anxiety that competitive situations would provoke in me. Votes: 1 Scott Stossel
I know just how isolating it can feel to experience severe anxiety. Votes: 3 Zoe Sugg
Well, unless you've suffered from panic attacks and social anxiety disorders, which is what I was diagnosed as having, it's hard to explain it. But you go on stage knowing you're actually physically going to die. You will keel over and die. Votes: 8 Donny Osmond
Now that I have conquered social anxiety disorder, I find pleasure in fans approaching me. Votes: 3 Ricky Williams
First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing, a modulated tone of voice, and a well-ordered manner of speech. He should be without anxiety as to his food and drink, and should eat in silence. Votes: 1 Saint Basil
Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles. Votes: 3 Paul Fussell
Stress is something that is sort of out of your control. You get stressed out over looking at the finish line. Stress is something that is an outside thing. Stress is an anxiety. Votes: 1 Joe Torre
I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety. Votes: 1 George Murray
I think one thing is that anybody who's had to contend with mental illness - whether it's depression, bipolar illness or severe anxiety, whatever - actually has a fair amount of resilience in the sense that they've had to deal with suffering already, personal suffering. Votes: 1 Kay Redfield Jamison
As a single parent, I had become tyrannical in order to survive, and anything I couldn't control caused me enormous anxiety. As a naturally untidy, disorganised man who never made lists or kept receipts, morphing into someone who could take care of a toddler on his own may have caused me to overcompensate a little. Votes: 1 Simon Van Booy
Powerful new drug-free treatments have been developed for depression and for every conceivable type of anxiety, such as chronic worrying, shyness, public speaking anxiety, test anxiety, phobias, and panic attacks. The goal of the treatment is not just partial improvement but full recovery. Votes: 3 David D. Burns
There's a book that's critical to understanding anxiety, a 17th-century book, 'The Anatomy of Melancholy,' by Robert Burton. I wanted to write something like that. Votes: 3 Scott Stossel