Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

91

Anais Nin

20

Anxiety Relaxation

Anxiety or sorrows are very different from fear. Fear should save our life but sorrows steel our inner peace here and now, takes away part of your energy and strength to act, to discover or simply to enjoy life. Here you get some inside to understand those thoughts, that can catch you from time to time and how to cope with thoughts of anxiety.

Anxiety

Relax

Fear

Peace

Habits

Get

Explore more quotes

Anxiety’s like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you very far.

Jodi Picoult

Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Dorothy M. Neddermeyer

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.

Deepak Chopra

If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.

Brene Brown

The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness.

Alain de Botton

Smile, breathe, and go slowly.

Thich Nhat Hanh

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering, that is familiar.

Thich Nhat Hanh

You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.

Dan Millman

If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.

Steven Hayes

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

Ernest Hemingway

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

George Bernard Shaw

Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

Arthur Somers Roche

Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.

Walter Anderson

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

Charles Spurgeon

Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

Grenville Kleiser

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.

Eckhart Tolle

You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you, if you realized how seldom they do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

You can’t always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

Wayne Dyer

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

That men have an interest in knowing the world which surrounds them, and consequently that their reflection should have been applied to it at an early date, is something that everyone will readily admit.

Emile Durkheim

The Supreme Court, of course, has the responsibility of ensuring that our government never oversteps its proper bounds or violates the rights of individuals. But the Court must also recognize the limits on itself and respect the choices made by the American people.

Elena Kagan

Pouring out liquor is like burning books.

William Faulkner

The brain abhors discrepancies.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Long weekends at festivals, short weeks at home, all summer long: now that is surely preferable to the immense cost and headache of the nuclear family holiday in the sun?

Tom Hodgkinson

Wear perfume wherever you want to be kissed!

Coco Chanel

I have this helicopter crash, and I fall in love with this man who was in the crash with me. I must have been suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome.

Christie Brinkley

My view is there's no bad time to innovate.

Jeff Bezos

I was a tomboy who liked to play rough just like my two older brothers. That's probably why I liked the athletic part of skating - especially the jumping!

Nancy Kerrigan

Sometimes I'll go into a shop and speak in a different accent to see if I can pull it off. But then somebody will be like, 'Where did you say you were from again...?' And then I panic, and my accent dissolves, and I pretend like I wasn't doing it in the first place.

Tatiana Maslany

Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And me being who I am, I'm very straightforward. Everything is very black and white for me. I don't really like playing mind games.

Zayn Malik

Te Papa Museum is brilliant.

Richard C. Armitage

Piracy is a huge, huge issue for all of these major content companies, and everybody has a different way of addressing it.

Anne Sweeney

A lot of my friends were a lot into theatre a lot earlier than I was. A lot of my friends were kids who were in The Broadway Kids and the kids auditioning for Gavroche in 'Les Miz.' I was never that kid. I was weaned on Michael Jackson. Not literally, because that would have been odd.

Erich Bergen

A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.

Orville Wright

Overall, I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give to the listener the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe... That's what I would like to do. I think that's one of the greatest things you can do in life, and we all try to do that in some way. The musician's is through his music.

John Coltrane

There's nobody as good as the Ramones, never will be. I mean everybody's just emulated us and now everybody just kinda takes our sound as their foundations.

Joey Ramone

I never studied jazz technically; I just know and love the music.

Mark Ronson

I want to liberate my imagination and my mind with every kind of movie. That is what I wanted to do all my life.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

We've mastered the art of making pretty music that makes you want to die.

Sean Kinney

Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist.

Sean Lennon

The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam; when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith.

Karen Armstrong

Learn to nurture and trust your instincts as well as your conscious reasoning. Often, one's instincts will offer the better judgment.

Ken Danby

It shouldn't be a matter of who deserves help or not, but of whether we want to be a country that allows its neediest to continue to need. Condemnation of individuals and their choices mutes all these other really important logistical questions about funding and budget and politics.

Adrian Nicole LeBlanc