833 Best Overcoming Anxiety Quotes: Calming Thoughts (Tumblr)
1. “Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations. The best is yet to come.”
2. “You’re worried about what-ifs. Well, what if you stopped worrying?” – Shannon Celebi
3. “Stop beating yourself up for not being perfect. You were never designed to be anyway.” – Unknown
4. “Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.” – Mary Hemingway
5. “Maybe the reason why you’re so scared about your relationship is because you finally have something you love but fear losing. Be as kind to people as you can be and you will always be loved.” – Declutter The Mind
6. “While fear depletes power, faith gives wings for the soul’s elevation.” ― T.F. Hodge
7. “It’s so empowering to say “this isn’t serving me’ and walk away in peace.” – Unknown
8. Don't believe everything you think. — Unknown
9. “Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It’s a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It’s the direct route to serenity and contentment.” ~ Grenville Kleiser
10. “When you walk through a storm hold your head up high and don’t be afraid of the dark. At the end of the storm is a golden sky And the sweet silver song of a lark.” – Oscar Hammerstein II
11. “Life is not a tension anywhere except in the minds of humanity.” – Osho
12. “We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” ~ Joseph Campbell
13. “You were given this life because you are strong enough to live it.” – Unknown
14. “For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” – 2 Timothy 1:7
15. “The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.”
16. “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
17. “We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.”
18. “Worrying is like sitting in a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but doesn’t get you anywhere.” – English Proverb
19. “I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.” – Erica Jong
20. “But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. “Do not fear their threats; do not be frightened.” – 1 Peter 3:4
21. “Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.” ~ Dalai Lama
22. “Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.” – Carl Jung
23. “There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.”
24. “You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.” – Steve Maraboli
25. “You can do anything, but not everything.”
26. We All Feel Anxious Sometimes, And We Can All Learn Ways To Cope With It
27. “Cast all your anxiety on Him because he cares for you.” – 1 Peter 5:7
28. “Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the most wonderful things that will ever happen to us.” – Nicole Reed
29. “She’s hurt mentally and emotionally. But everyday, she walks with a smile. ‘Cause that’s who she is: the girl who never stopped smiling.” – Unknown
30. “They told me all of my cages were mental, so I got wasted like all my potential” – Taylor Swift
31. “I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
32. “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” ― Confucius
33. “When anxiety was great within me, your consolation brought me joy.” – Psalm 94:19
34. “Silence is a lie that screams at the light.” – Shannon L. Alder
35. You don't have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you. — Dan Millman
36. Over-Thinking Magnifies Anxiety
37. “Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.” – Roy T. Bennett
38. “A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.” — Joyce Meyer
39. “Sometimes you have to forget what you feel and remember what you deserve.” – Unknown
40. “You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
41. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
42. “Although anxiety is part of life, never let it control you.” — Paulo Coelho
43. “Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.” — Jennifer Elisabeth
44. “The best use of imagination is creativity. The worst use of imagination is anxiety.”
45. “Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”
46. “He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.”
47. “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
48. “Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression…It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.”
49. “Feeling the need to be busy all the time is a trauma based response and fear-based distraction you’d be forced to acknowledge and feel if you slowed down.” – Tutu Mora
50. If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got. — Steven Hayes
51. “Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems” ~ Epictetus
52. “We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.”
53. “You cannot always control what goes on outside, but you can always control what goes on inside.”
54. “You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.” – Olin Miller
55. “Choose to be optimistic. It feels better.” – Dalai Lama
56. “Every moment is a fresh beginning.” – T.S. Eliot
57. “You can’t always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.” – Wayne Dyer
58. “We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually, you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure.” – Nick Saban
59. “Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.”
60. “Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.” – Roy Bennett
61. “Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
62. “Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.” – Ruth E. Renkel
63. “Don’t allows yourself to wake up with yesterday’s issues troubling your mind. Refuse to live backwards, see every day is a new chapter.” – Unknown
64. “Don't assume I'm weak because I have panic attacks. You'll never know the amount of strength it takes to face the world every day.”
65. “Rule number one: Don’t sweat the small stuff. Rule number two: It’s all small stuff.”—Robert S. Eliot
66. “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
67. “The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, not to anticipate the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.” – Buddha
68. “Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.” ~ Kahlil Gibran
69. “Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
70. “Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths.”
71. “You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry, don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.” – Walter Hagen
72. “It’s not time to worry yet.” — Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
73. “Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.” ~ Dalai Lama
74. “It’s funny how sometimes the people you’d take a bullet for are the ones behind the trigger.” – Unknown
75. “The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.” ~ John C. Maxwell
76. “Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”― Søren Kierkegaard
77. “I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, not just for tomorrow, but in the here and now.”
78. “If you’re going through hell keep going.” – Winston Churchill
79. “It’s not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.” ~ Hans Selye
80. “Smile, breathe, go slowly.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
81. “Keep walking through the storm. Your rainbow is waiting on the other side.” – Heather Stillufsen
82. “What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow.” – Thomas Kempis
83. “Trust yourself. You’ve survived a lot, and you’ll survive whatever is coming.” – Robert Tew | Quotes About Anxiety to Help Cope | Quotes on Anxiety
84. “Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.”
85. “Actually spending ten minutes clearing off one shelf is better than fantasizing about spending a weekend cleaning out the basement.”
86. “When you walk through a storm hold your head up high, and don’t be afraid of the dark/At the end of the storm is a golden sky, and the sweet silver song of a lark.”
87. “She was always fighting a battle, but her smile would never tell you so.” – Nikki Rowe
88. “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.”
89. “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him and he shall direct your paths.” – Proverbs 3:5-6
90. “Your anxiety is lying to you. You are loved and you are going to be okay.”
91. “Many of us feel stress and get overwhelmed not because we’re taking on too much, but because we’re taking on too little of what really strengthens us.”
92. “We have anxious thoughts because the brain is trying to keep us alive. To the brain, survival is much more important than happiness. So, the brain often conjures up worst case scenarios and “what ifs”, so that we can prepare for disaster. The trouble is, the brain regularly gets it wrong.”
93. “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
94. “Now is the age of anxiety.” – W. H. Auden
95. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney
96. “Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by the degree of presence.” – Alan Watts
97. “Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.” – Proverb
98. “Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.” – Anne Lamott
99. “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside of you that is greater than any obstacle.” ~ Christian D. Larson
100. “You can’t calm the storm. So stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass.” – Timber Hawkeye
101. “Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.”
102. “If you suffer from anxiety or you have periods where you feel anxious, you may feel that you are not in a good position to help your child. This is not true. Supporting an anxious child as a family member gives you advantages over a parent who has never had anxiety difficulties.”
103. “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”
104. “I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.” ~ Wayne Dyer
105. “If you can’t fly, run. If you can’t run, walk. And If you can’t walk, crawl, but by all means, keep moving.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
106. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” ~ Henry Ford
107. “You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.” – Dan Millman
108. “How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.”
109. “There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.”
110. “Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.”
111. “You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.” ~ Pearl S. Buck
112. “Calmness is the cradle of power.”
113. “All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
114. “No amount of anxiety can change the future. No amount of regret can change the past.”
115. “It’s okay to not be okay. Just don’t give up.” – Unknown
116. “Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday. ” – Ann Brashares
117. “You don’t have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.”
118. “I lied and said I was busy. I was busy but not in a way most people understand. I was busy taking deeper breaths. I was busy silencing irrational thoughts. I was busy calming a racing heart. I was busy telling myself I am okay. Sometimes this is my busy and I will not apologize for it.” – B. Oakman
119. “I will breathe. I will think of solutions. I will not let my worry control me. I will not let my stress level break me. And it will be okay because I won’t quit.” – Shayne Mcclendon
120. “The day you stop worrying will be the first day of your new life; anxiety takes you in circles, trust in yourself and become free.” – Leon Brown
121. “You wake up every morning to fight the same demons that left you so tired the night before, and that, my love, is bravery.” – Unknown
122. “A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.” ~ Aesop
123. “Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.” — Thomas a Kempis
124. “Calmness is the cradle of power.” ~ Josiah Gilbert Holland
125. “Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.” – Dalai Lama
126. “Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.”—William S. Burroughs
127. “Do what you can, with what you've got, where you are.” — Theodore Roosevelt
128. “We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.” ~ Mother Teresa
129. “The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.” ~ William James
130. “I promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems. Nothing is worth diminishing your health. Nothing is worth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and fear.”
131. “The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.” — William James
132. “Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change.” – Bob Kerrey
133. “The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.”
134. “To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one’s self…. And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one’s self.”
135. “Surrender to what is, let go of what was, and have faith in what will be.” ~ Sonia Ricotti
136. “It’s not time to worry yet.” — Harper Lee
137. “Anxiety’s like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far.”
138. “You don’t drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.”
139. “It’s disrepectful, in my opinion, when people talk about anxiety attacks as if they’re just a slight hiccup.” – Unknown
140. “If we wanted to change the situation, we first had to change ourselves. And to change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.”
141. Anxiety happens when you think you have to figure out everything all at once. Breathe. You’re strong. You got this. Take it day by day.” – Karen Salmansohn
142. “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.” ~ Will Durst
143. “People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.”
144. “When I let go of what I am, I become what I want to be.” ~ Lao Tzu
145. “Don’t let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries.”– Astrid Alauda
146. “Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” – Philippians 4:6-7
147. “[Slow breathing] is like an anchor in the midst of an emotional storm: The anchor won’t make the storm go away, but it will hold you steady until it passes.” – Russ Harris
148. “If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you’ll die a lot of times.”
149. “I just give myself permission to suck. I find this hugely liberating.” — John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars
150. “We labor at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have the leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
151. “Anxiety’s like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you very far.” – Jodi Picoult
152. “[Slow breathing] is like an anchor in the midst of an emotional storm: The anchor won't make the storm go away, but it will hold you steady until it passes.” – Russ Harris
153. “If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you’ll die a lot of times.” – Dean Smith
154. “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” –Dr. Seuss
155. “When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.” – Winston S. Churchill
156. Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity. – T. S. Eliot
157. “I have social anxiety. It’s easier up on stage because there’s security in being there. When I’m off stage I’m trying not to be a manic freak. I’m quite shy.” – Sia Furler
158. “Not everything that weighs you down is yours to carry.” – Unknown
159. “CBT is an evidence-based therapy for anxiety. Your child will learn how to better handle their anxiety and understand the situations that lead to it. The therapist will help your child to identify and gently challenge thoughts which are not helping them. They will also learn to approach their fear rather than avoiding it, taking baby steps.”
160. “Become a worry-slapper. Treat frets like mosquitoes. Do you procrastinate when a bloodsucking bug lights on your skin? 'I'll take care of it in a moment.' Of course, you don't! You give the critter the slap it deserves. Be equally decisive with anxiety.”
161. “Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.”
162. “Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the most wonderful things that will ever happen to us.”
163. “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
164. “Nothing is permanent in this wicked world—not even our troubles.”
165. “Life would be a million times better if there were pinatas strategically placed throughout the day.” – Unknown
166. “Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
167. “Trust yourself. You’ve survived a lot, and you’ll survive whatever is coming.” – Robert Tew
168. “You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
169. “For me, a calm house, equals a calm heart, equals a calm life.” – Erica Layne
170. “To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self… And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self.” – Søren Kierkegaard
171. “You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” ~Christopher Robin
172. “We must be willing to let go of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
173. “At the end of the day, tell yourself gently: ‘I love you, you did the best you could today, and even if you didn’t accomplish all you planned. I love you anyway.” – Unknown
174. “Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.”
175. “If it’s not going to matter in five years, don’t spend five minutes being upset about it.” – Unknown
176. “Anxiety is when the butterflies in your stomach turn into bees.” – Bridgett Devoue
177. “For fast acting relief, try slowing down.” – Lily Tomlin
178. “Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.”—William Shakespeare
179. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
180. “Never let life’s hardships disturb you … no one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages.”
181. “If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.” ~ Frank A. Clark
182. “What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.” – Martha Graham
183. “Each moment of worry, anxiety or stress represents lack of faith in miracles, for they never cease.” – T.F. Hodge
184. “If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty or back to pain and regret.” – Jim Carrey
185. “In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.” ~ Mitch Albom
186. If you aren't willing to have it, you will. — Steven Hayes
187. “If it won’t matter in a year from now, or even a month, it shouldn’t matter now.”
188. “When you’re feeling anxious, remember that you’re still you. You are not your anxiety.” ~Deanne Repich
189. “You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.” —Jon Kabat-Zinn
190. “He felt like normal. Filled with anxiety, dread, sure. But even that wasn’t unusual…” ― John Ajvide Lindqvist
191. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
192. “Let’s just say my anxieties, have anxieties.” – Unknown
193. “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside of you that is greater than any obstacle.” ~Christian D. Larson
194. “Worrying is like walking around with an umbrella waiting for it to rain.”
195. “The righteous cry out and the Lord hears them; he delivers them from all their troubles.” – Psalm 34: 17
196. “All this hurrying from place to place won’t bring you any relief, for you’re traveling in the company of your own emotions, followed by your troubles all the way.” – Seneca
197. “Hey you, keep living. It won’t always be this overwhelming.” — Jacqueline Whitney
198. “Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”– William James
199. “Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.” – Mitch Albom
200. “The best thing one can do when it is raining, is to let it rain.”
201. “My anxiety doesn’t come from thinking about the future but from wanting to control it.” – Hugh Prather
202. “For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.” ~ T.S. Eliot
203. “Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson
204. “Fear and anxiety many times indicates that we are moving in a positive direction, out of the same confines of our comfort zone, and in the direction of our true purpose.” – Charles Glassman
205. “You don’t have to control your thoughts, you just have to let them stop controlling you.” – Dan Millman
206. “Fear exists only in your mind, not in nature. Detach yourself, be strong, trust life, and become life.” – Maxime Lagacé
207. “If you’re always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.” – Maya Angelou
208. “Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.” – Walter Anderson
209. “If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.” – Fred Rogers
210. “How can a person deal with anxiety? You might try what one fellow did. He worried so much that he decided to hire someone to do his worrying for him. He found a man who agreed to be his hired worrier for a salary of $200,000 per year. After the man accepted the job, his first question to his boss was, ‘Where are you going to get $200,000 per year?’ To which the man responded, ‘That's your worry’” – Max Lucado
211. “A pearl is a beautiful thing that is produced by an injured life. It is the tear (that results) from the injury of the oyster. The treasure of our being in this world is also produced by an injured life. If we had not been wounded, if we had not been injured, then we will not produce the pearl.” – Stephan Hoeller
212. “Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you because it will.”—Cheryl Strayed
213. “Rule number one: Don’t sweat the small stuff. Rule number two: It’s all small stuff.” ~ Robert S. Eliot
214. “We must be willing to let go of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” — Joseph Campbell
215. “We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” – Joseph Campbell
216. “Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.”
217. Worries and Troubles Will Pass
218. “I like my music so loud I can’t hear my thoughts.” – Unknown
219. “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” – C.S. Lewis
220. “Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
221. We acquire the strength we have overcome. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
222. “How can a person deal with anxiety? You might try what one fellow did. He worried so much that he decided to hire someone to do his worrying for him. He found a man who agreed to be his hired worrier for a salary of $200,000 per year. After the man accepted the job, his first question to his boss was, “Where are you going to get $200,000 per year?” To which the man responded, “That’s your worry.” ― Max Lucado
223. “Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.”
224. “Worry in the dark can make it even darker.”– Camron Wright
225. “Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.” – Unknown
226. “Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
227. “The other thing is that if you rely solely on medication to manage depression or anxiety, for example, you have done nothing to train the mind so that when you come off the medication, you are just as vulnerable to a relapse as though you had never taken the medication.” – Daniel Goleman
228. “Anxiety happens when you think you have to figure out everything all at once. Breathe. You’re strong. You got this. Take it day by day.”
229. “If anxiety burned calories, I’d be a supermodel.” – Unknown
230. “Please forgive me if I don’t talk much at times. It sometimes gets loud in my head.” – Unknown
231. “Don’t let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries.” – Astrid Alauda
232. “We must be willing to let go of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” ~ Joseph Campbell
233. “You don’t have to control your thoughts, you just have to stop letting them control you.”
234. “People cry not because they’re weak. It’s because they’ve been strong too long.” – Johnny Depp
235. “I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.”
236. “When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” — Wayne Dyer
237. “Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, she became a butterfly.” – Barbara Haines Howett
238. “Some days, doing ‘the best we can’ may still fall short of what we would like to be able to do, but life isn’t perfect — on any front — and doing what we can with what we have is the most we should expect of ourselves or anyone else.”
239. “Just because I can’t explain the feelings causing my anxiety doesn’t make them less valid.” ~ Lauren Elizabeth
240. “Don’t settle: Don’t finish crappy books. If you don’t like the menu, leave the restaurant. If you’re not on the right path, get off it.” – Chris Brogan
241. “The elimination diet: Remove anger, regret, resentment, guilt, blame and worry. Then watch your health, and life, improve.”
242. “Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.” – Glenn Turner
243. “How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
244. “P.S. You’re not going to die. Here’s the white-hot truth: if you go bankrupt, you’ll still be okay. If you lose the gig, the lover, the house, you’ll still be okay. If you sing off-key, get beat by the competition, have your heart shattered, get fired…it’s not going to kill you. Ask anyone who’s been through it.” – Danielle LaPorte
245. “Life is 10% of what you experience and 90% of how you respond to it.” – Dorothy M. Neddermeyer
246. “You have dug your soul out of the dark, you have fought to be here; do not go back to what buried you.” ~ Bianca Sparacino
247. “I want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk into my life and need someone to love them beyond reason.” – Jennifer Elisabeth
248. “Not everything that weighs you down is yours to carry.”
249. “I just give myself permission to suck. I find this hugely liberating.” – John Green
250. “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.” – John 14:27
251. “Most things we worry about never happen.”
252. “Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the best things that will ever happen to us.” ~ Nicole Reed
253. “Life is 10 percent what you experience and 90 percent how you respond to it.” – Dorothy M. Neddermeyer
254. “Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest taken between two deep breaths.”
255. “Close your eyes. Clear your heart. Let it go.”
256. “Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.” – Robert J. Sawyer
257. “Worrying doesn’t take away tomorrow’s troubles. It takes away today’s peace.” – Unknown
258. “You are not weak. People like us, we’re brave. We’re the ones who get up and face our worst fears every day. We keep fighting.” – Jen Wilde
259. “Our stresses, anxieties, pains and problems arise because we do not see the world, others or even ourselves as worthy of love.”
260. “If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you’ll die a lot of times.” ~ Dean Smith
261. “Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.”
262. “If you can't fly, run. If you can't run, walk. If you can't walk, crawl, but by all means, keep moving.”
263. “I will breathe. I will think of solutions. I will not let my worry control me. I will not let my stress level break me. I will simply breathe. And it will be okay because I don't quit.” – Shayne McClendon
264. “Spend time with people who bring out the best in you, not the stress in you.” – Unknown
265. “Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.” – William James
266. “Look for opportunities – when your child is in a positive state of mind – to gently challenge the fear. Take baby steps. For example if your child is terrified of dogs, you could park near a park and watch some dogs go by at a distance. Your child feels safe in the care but they have taken a tiny step to approach, rather than avoid, the fear.”
267. “Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.” ~ Swedish proverb
268. “Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.”– Roy T. Bennett
269. “Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith. I don't agree at all. They are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ.” – C.S. Lewis
270. “I just give myself permission to suck…I find this hugely liberating.” ~ John Green
271. “I stress about stress before there’s even stress to stress about. Then I stress about stressing over stress that doesn’t need to be stressed about. It’s stressful.” – Unknown
272. “If you can’t fly then run; if you can’t run then walk; and if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
273. “A child’s teenage years can be a time of huge change. With change, it can be common for teenagers to experience feelings of insecurity and anxiety as they navigate their world as developing young adults.”
274. “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
275. “My anxiety is silent. You wouldn't even notice a change on the outside but I'm honestly so stressed I can't even manage simple tasks. People call me lazy when, in reality, I'm just overwhelmed.”
276. “Everyone remembers the remark of the old man at the point of death, that his life had been full of troubles—most of which had never happened.”
277. “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
278. “The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” —William James
279. “Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.”
280. “If it’s out of your hands, it deserves freedom from your mind too.” – Unknown
281. “Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.”
282. “Don’t worry about achieving. Don’t worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can.” – Pema Chödrön
283. “What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.” — Martha Graham
284. “Anxiety projection can and does occur – in myth, in music, in fiction, and in the doctor’s office too. That doesn’t make it the basis of everything.” — Robert Bringhurst
285. “A victory against my old friend anxiety.” – Lisa Wilson
286. “Somewhere, there is a past you overflowing with so much pride looking at how far you’ve come.” – Unknown
287. “Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.” ~ William Shakespeare
288. “Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.”
289. “Anxiety happens when you think you have to figure out everything all at once. Breathe. You’re strong. You got this. Take it day by day.” – Karen Salmansohn
290. “Slow breathing is like an anchor in the midst of an emotional storm: the anchor won’t make the storm go away, but it will hold you steady until it passes.”
291. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”—Henry Stanley Haskins
292. “What if… everything you are going through is preparing you for what you asked for?”
293. “The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.” – Mignon McLaughlin
294. “We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.” – David Mamet
295. “Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.” – Kahil Gibran
296. “Too often, the only escape is sleep.” – Charles Bukowski
297. “It’s not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.” — Hans Selye
298. “If you want to conquer overthinking, bring your mind to the present moment and reconnect it with the immediate world.” – Amit Ray
299. “Today, I will not stress over things, I can't control.”
300. “The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” ~William James
301. “Rule number one is don’t sweat the small stuff. Rule number two, it’s all small stuff.” – Robert Eliot
302. “Thoughts trigger emotions , even if they are not true or the worry is not likely to happen. Teach your child to spend time observing their thoughts – or writing them down – like an interested bystander watching clouds passing. The idea that your child is an observer of what’s going on inside their brain is much more helpful than letting thoughts “happen” to them, allowing the thought to trigger worried feelings.”
303. “It is both a blessing and a curse to feel everything so very deeply.” – Unknown
304. “Trust yourself. You’ve survived a lot, and you’ll survive whatever is coming.” ~ Robert Tew
305. “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
306. “You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.”
307. “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” – Maya Angelou
308. “It’s not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.”
309. “Everyone remembers the remark of the old man at the point of death, that his life had been full of troubles— most of which had never happened.” ~ Winston Churchill
310. “Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.”
311. “The universe doesn’t allow perfection.”
312. “I promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems. Nothing is worth diminishing your health. Nothing is worth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and fear.”― Steve Maraboli
313. “Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.” – Thomas Carlyle
314. “Anxiety is not what you experience, it’s how you how you perceive and respond to the problems.” ~ Invajy
315. “When my heart is overwhelmed, lead me to the rock that is higher than I.” – Psalm 61:2
316. “You don’t drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.” ~ Zig Ziglar
317. “Don’t forget that you’re human. It’s okay if you have a meltdown. Just don’t unpack and live there. Cry it out. Then refocus on where your headed.” – Unknown
318. “You have dug your soul out of the dark, you have fought to be here; do not go back to what buried you.” – Bianca Sparacino
319. “It’s not time to worry yet.”
320. When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. — Wayne Dyer
321. “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” – Aesop
322. “You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.” ~ Dan Millman
323. “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. When I let go of what I have, I receive what I need.” ~Tao Te Ching
324. “Nothing is permanent in this wicked world — not even our troubles.” — Charlie Chaplin
325. “I know content-wise I leave nothing to chance. I have no anxiety about what I’m going to do once I’m out on stage.” — Jay Mohr
326. “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” – Maya Angelou
327. “The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.”
328. Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself. ~Samuel Butler
329. “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.” – Proverbs 3:5-6
330. “Never let life’s hardships disturb you … no one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages.” – Nichiren Daishonen
331. “Stress is the alarm clock that lets you know you’ve attached to something not true for you.” – Byron Katie
332. Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety. – Plato
333. “When I don’t have something to worry about, I worry. Nothing comes so naturally to a human being as anxiety and worry.” – Brian Richardson
334. “Anxiety is nothing but repeatedly experiencing failure in advance. What a waste.” – Seth Godin
335. “You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.”
336. “Act the way that you want to feel.” — Gretchen Rubin
337. “Rule number one: Don’t sweat the small stuff. Rule number two: It’s all small stuff.”
338. “Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.” ~ Walter Anderson
339. “Do not be anxious about tomorrow.” – Matthew 6:34
340. “He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.” ~ Shannon L. Alde
341. “Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.”
342. Act the way that you want to feel. — Gretchen Rubin
343. “When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” ~ Wayne Dyer
344. “The way you tell your story to yourself matters.”
345. “There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.” – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
346. “Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back.” – Jennifer Elisabeth
347. “Stop thinking about everything so much, you’re breaking your own heart.” – Unknown
348. “Anxiety’s like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you very far.” ~ Jodi Picoult
349. “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” – Epictetus
350. “He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.” – Shannon L. Alder
351. “After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn’t bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it’s a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it’s sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we’re doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.” – Paulo Coelho
352. “Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have.”
353. “Remember how far you’ve come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.” – Rick Warren
354. “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me.” – John 14:1
355. Anxiety is Normal
356. “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.”
357. “No longer forward nor behind I look in hope and fear; But grateful take the good I find, The best of now and here.” – John G. Whittier
358. “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
359. “Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.”
360. “If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.” – Amit Ray
361. “He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.” ~ Michel de Montaigne
362. “Whatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not.” – Ana Monnar
363. “Worrying doesn’t empty tomorrow of its sorrows; it empties today of its strengths.” – Corrie Boom
364. “It is mental slavery to cling to things that have stopped serving its purpose in your life.” – Chinoye J. Chidolue
365. “Anxiety I will transform you into something useful and productive. I will not bow down to you.” – Jaeda Dewalt
366. “Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.” — Thich Nhat Hanh
367. “Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.” – Corrie Ten Boom
368. “Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.” ~ Dale Carnegie
369. “It’s normal that people experience anxiety. It’s our body and brain’s way of keeping us alert and it can actually improve performance.”
370. “The best thing one can do when it is raining, is to let it rain.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
371. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” ~Henry Ford
372. “Today I will not stress over the things I can’t control.” – Unknown
373. “A year from now everything your stressing about won’t mean a thing.” – Nitya Prakash
374. “It’s perfectly okay to admit you’re not okay.” – Unknown
375. “Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.”
376. “For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.”
377. “Do what you can, with what you’ve got, where you are.” — Theodore Roosevelt
378. “Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.” ~ Mary Tyler Moore
379. “Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations. The best is yet to come.” – Zig Ziglar
380. “In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.” – Mitch Albom
381. “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside of you that is greater than any obstacle.” – Christian D. Larson
382. “Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale
383. “Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have.”
384. “There are these moments you think you won’t survive. And then you survive.” – David Levithan
385. “I know what it’s like to be afraid of your own mind.” –Dr.Reid
386. “For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline.” – 2 Timothy 1:7
387. “The elimination diet: Remove anger, regret, resentment, guilt, blame, and worry. Then watch your health, and life, improve.” – Charles F. Glassman
388. “If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.”
389. “I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own web of shyness and reserve, and in their blindness and folly built up a great distorted wall in front of them that hid the truth.”— Daphne du Maurier
390. “Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.” ~ Pema Chodron
391. “I’m not lazy. I’m just exhausted from fighting my way through every single day.” – Mimi Love
392. “Surrender to what is. Let go of what was. Have faith in what will be.” – Sonia Ricotte
393. “In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived. How well we have loved. How well we have learned to let go.” – Jack Kornfield
394. “Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.” ~ Anne Lamott
395. “Going through things you never thought you’d go through will only take you places you never thought you’d get to.”
396. “If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.” ~ E. Joseph Cossman
397. “It’s not stress that kills us. It’s our reaction to it.” – Hans Seyle
398. “Whatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not.”
399. “P.S. You’re not going to die. Here’s the white-hot truth: if you go bankrupt, you’ll still be okay. If you lose the gig, the lover, the house, you’ll still be okay. If you sing off-key, get beat by the competition, have your heart shattered, get fired…it’s not going to kill you. Ask anyone who’s been through it.” — Danielle LaPorte
400. “Grief and constant anxiety kill nearly as many women as men die on the battlefield.” — Bill Vaughan
401. “People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.” – George Bernard Shaw
402. “I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, not just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.” – Carl Sandburg
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404. “If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got.” – Steven Hayes
405. “Until I am ready, let me be. I have to heal myself.” – Unknown
406. “Your mountain may be harder to climb, but oh the view is divine.” – Jennae Cecelia
407. “Fear not, for I am with you. Be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, Yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.” – Isaiah 41:10
408. What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow? – Thomas a Kempis
409. “When you’re feeling anxious remember that you’re still you. You are not your anxiety.” – Deanne Repich
410. “Stepping out of the busyness is perhaps the most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.” – Tara Brach
411. “You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.”
412. “We suffer more in imagination than in reality.” – Seneca
413. “Nothing about depression and anxiety is easy.” – Keisha Defliger
414. “We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.” ~ David Mamet
415. “There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.” – Sylvia Plath
416. “Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.”
417. “Flowers grow back even after the harshest winters. You will too.” – Jennae Cecilia
418. “Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.”
419. “Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.” ~ Matt Lucas
420. “There are far, far better things ahead than anything we leave behind.”– C. S. Lewis
421. “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
422. “I’m somewhere between giving up and seeing how much more I can take.” – Unknown
423. “Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you because it will.”
424. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” – Maya Angelou
425. “You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.” ~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
426. “I don’t think people understand how stressful it is to explain what’s going on in your head when you don’t even understand it yourself.” – Unknown
427. “Stop overthinking. If it’s not meant to be, it’s not meant to be.”
428. “Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.” – Matt Lucas
429. “Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.” – Benjamin Franklin
430. “Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” ~ Soren Kierkegaard
431. “I came. I saw. I had anxiety… so I left.” – Unknown
432. “Courage is not the absence of fear, but doing something in spite of fear.” ~Unknown
433. “If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.”
434. “But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.” – Isaiah 40:31
435. Let Go of Some of Your Worries
436. “When you feel overwhelmed, remember: A little at a time is how it gets done. One thing, one task, one moment at a time.” – Anonymous
437. “I don’t think people realize how much strength it takes to pull your own self out of a dark place mentally. If you did that today or any other day, I’m proud of you.” – Horacio Jones
438. “Don’t assume I’m weak because I have panic attacks. You’ll never know the amount of strength it takes to face the world each day.” – Unknown
439. “Everyone must imagine his own snakes because no one else’s snakes can ever be as awful.”
440. “When I let go of what I am, I become what I want to be.” – Lao Tzu
441. “For those wondering how to deal with anxiety and depression, the first thing to consider is what you’re putting into your mouth.” — John Cleese
442. “Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.” – Pema Chodron
443. Living in the Now
444. “Be brave enough to heal yourself even when it hurts.” – Bianca Sparacino
445. “Worrying about outcomes over which I have no control is punishing myself before the universe has decided whether I ought to be punished.” – Sherry Thomas
446. “Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it— just as we have learned to live with storms.”
447. “Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy at the moment.” – J. Donald Walters
448. “One of the most effective ways to overcome anxiety is to try to shift the focus of attention away from self and toward others. When we succeed in this, we find that the scale of our own problems diminishes. This is not to say we should ignore our own needs altogether, but rather that we should try to remember others’ needs alongside our own, no matter how pressing ours may be.”
449. “The truth is some days I don’t give it my best. I don’t even give it my all. I can only manage to give it my some, and it’s not even that great. But I’m still here and I’m still trying.” – Nanea Hoffman
450. “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
451. “Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have.” – Norman Vincent Peale
452. “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside of you that is greater than any obstacle.” – Christian D Larson
453. “Anxiety is a lot like a toddler. It never stops talking, tells you you’re wrong about everything, and wakes you up at 3 am.”
454. “In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived. How well we have loved. How well we have learned to let go” – Jack Kornfield
455. “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.” — Virginia Woolf
456. “You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
457. “Our stresses, anxieties, pains, and problems arise because we do not see the world, others or even ourselves as worthy of love.” – Prem Prakash
458. “Breathe darling. This is just a chapter. It’s not your whole story.” – S.C. Lourie
459. “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
460. “The elimination diet: Remove anger, regret, resentment, guilt, blame and worry. Then watch your health, and life, improve.” ~ Charles Glassman
461. “Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it—just as we have learned to live with storms.” – Paulo Coelho
462. “I know you’re sad, so I won’t tell you to have a good day. Instead, I advise you to have a day. Stay alive, feed yourself well, wear comfortable clothes, and don’t give up on yourself just yet. It’ll get better. Until then, have a day.” – Unknown
463. “The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.”
464. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” ~ Maya Angelou
465. “Some days, doing ‘the best we can’ may still fall short of what we would like to be able to do, but life isn’t perfect—on any front—and doing what we can with what we have is the most we should expect of ourselves or anyone else.” – Fred Rogers
466. “Too numb to feel anything.” – Unknown
467. “Almost everything for which I felt anxious has never turned into a reality.” ~ Invajy
468. “You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analysing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could’ve, would’ve happened… or you could just leave the pieces on the floor and move on.” – Tupac
469. “When you feel overwhelmed, remember: A little at a time is how it gets done. One thing, one task, one moment at a time.” — Anonymous
470. “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”– Lao Tzu
471. “How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.” — Thomas Jefferson
472. “It’s not the stress that kills us, it’s our reaction to it.”
473. “A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that’s unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.” – Lugwig Wittgenstein
474. “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” ~ Maya Angelou
475. “Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.”
476. “You are the biggest enemy of your own sleep.” – Pawan Mishra
477. “If you can’t fly then run; if you can’t run then walk; if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
478. “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.” ~ Steve Maraboli
479. “For fast acting relief, try slowing down.” ~ Lily Tomlin
480. “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.”
481. “We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.” – Mother Teresa
482. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford
483. “Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.” – Marcus Aurelius
484. “Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.” – Alain de Botton
485. “Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.”
486. “Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest taken between two deep breaths.” — Etty Hillesum
487. “The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.” – Oscar Wilde
488. “Don’t let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries.”
489. “Chronic anxiety is a state more undesirable than any other, and we will try almost any maneuver to eliminate it. Modern man is living in anxious anticipation of destruction. Such anxiety can be easily eliminated by self-destruction. As a German saying puts it: ‘Better an end with terror than a terror without end.”
490. “Some day everything will make sense. So for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears, and keep reminding yourself that everything happens for a reason.” – Unknown
491. “Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape.” — George Santayana
492. “Enlightenment is when a wave realizes it is an ocean.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
493. “Social anxiety results from being around people who are resolutely opposed to who you are.” – Stefan Molyneux
494. “Stop your whining. If you are frightened, be silent. Whining is for prey. It attracts predators. And you are not prey.” – Robin Hobb
495. “Surrender to what is, let go of what was, and have faith in what will be.”
496. “Sometimes the best thing you can do is not think, not wonder, not imagine, not obsess.” – Unknown
497. “Worrying is like walking around with an umbrella waiting for the rain.” – Unknown
498. “We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
499. “Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.” – Wayne W. Dyer
500. “The minute you let anxiety flow freely is the minute you stop fearing it.” – Unknown
501. “Rather than relaxing and enjoying who we are and what we’re doing, we are comparing ourselves with an ideal and trying to make up for the difference.” – Tara Brach
502. “You cannot always control what goes on outside, but you can always control what goes on inside.” —Wayne Dyer
503. “Mantra for Anxiety: This is not you. This is something moving through you. It can leave out of the same door it came in.” – James Clear
504. “Going through things you never thought you’d go through will only take you places you never thought you’d get to.” ~ Morgan Harper Nichols
505. “Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it — just as we have learned to live with storms.”
506. “Stop trying to calm the storm. Calm yourself. The storm will pass.”
507. “Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.” – William S. Burroughs
508. “Living with anxiety, turning up and doing stuff with anxiety takes a strength most will never know.” – Unknown
509. “Stop telling people no one will love them until they love themselves. Stop planting the idea in people’s brains that they are unworthy of love because of their own struggle.” – @jackalltimelow
510. “Never let life’s hardships disturb you … no one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages.” ~ Nichiren Daishonen
511. “Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.” – Madeleine L’Engle
512. “Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.”
513. “Sometimes the best thing you can do is not think, not wonder, not imagine, not obsess. Just breathe and have faith that everything will work out for the best.” – Unknown
514. “Calmness is the cradle of power.” — Josiah Gilbert Holland
515. “Not everything that weighs you down is yours to carry.” – Anonymous
516. “Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges.”
517. “The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.” ~ Sydney J. Harris
518. “All I want is a clear mind and a happy heart.” – Dipti Bhoyar
519. “Worry in the dark can make it even darker.”
520. “If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.” ~ Amit Ray
521. “I’m just suggesting that when you’re faced with fear and anxiety, don’t medicate. Meditate instead.” — Russell Simmons
522. “Anxiety is experiencing failure and defeat in advance. Don’t waste your time.”
523. “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.” – Anais Nin
524. “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. And, no need to be anybody but oneself.” ~ Virginia Woolf
525. “The more you pray, the less you'll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You'll feel more patient and less pressured.” – Rick Warren
526. “Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.” ~ Plato
527. “Let your mind and heart rest for a while. You will catch up, the world will not stop spinning for you, but you will catch up. Take a rest.” – Cynthia Go
528. “Smile, breathe, and go slowly.”
529. “Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
530. “Never fear shadows. They simply mean there’s a light shining somewhere nearby.” – Ruth E. Renkel
531. “You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.” – Pearl S. Buck
532. “No amount of regret can change the past. No amount of anxiety can change the future.”
533. “When thinking about the future, remember this: no amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of anxiety can change the future.” – Unknown
534. “True happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied, for he that is wants nothing.” – Seneca
535. “Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations. The best is yet to come.” – Zig Ziglar | Motivational Quotes to Help You Overcome Anxiety | Calming Quotes for People with Anxiety
536. “I can do this… I can start over. I can save my own life and I’m never going to be alone as long as I have stars to wish on and people to still love.”
537. “Just because I carry it well doesn’t mean it’s not heavy.” – Unknown
538. “Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.” ~ Charles Spurgeon
539. “There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” — Epictetus
540. “What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create.” – Buddha
541. “Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.”
542. “Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
543. “Stress is an ignorant state. It believes everything is an emergency.” ~ Natalie Goldberg
544. “To live by worry is to live against reality.” – E. Stanley Jones
545. “Breathe. You’re going to be okay. You’ve gotten through so many things in your life. You’ve got this.” – Karen Salmansohn
546. “Anxiety serves no purpose other than stealing today’s joy.”
547. “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”
548. “It’s not time to worry yet.” ~ Harper Lee
549. “Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher
550. “Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.”
551. “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.”
552. “Me: What could possibly go wrong? Anxiety: I’m glad you asked.” –Unknown
553. “Just because I can’t explain the feelings causing my anxiety doesn’t make them less valid.”
554. “Anxiety, it just stops your life.” — Amanda Seyfried
555. “Just because I can’t explain the feelings causing my anxiety doesn’t make them less valid.” – Lauren Elizabeth
556. “Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
557. “You can’t always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.” — Wayne Dyer
558. “What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?” ~ Thomas a Kempis
559. “He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.”
560. “You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” – Martin Luther King
561. “When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.” — Winston Churchill
562. “What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?”
563. “If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.” – The Dalai Lama
564. “Note to self: Everything is going to be okay.”
565. “The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” – William James
566. “I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. ‘Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.’” – E. B. White
567. “Whatever happens around you, don’t take it personally…Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.” – Don Miguel Ruiz
568. “I’ve spent most of my life and most of my friendships holding my breath and hoping that when people get close enough they won’t leave, and fearing that it’s a matter of time before they figure me out and go.”— Shauna Niequist
569. “It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear; about two of them nothing can be done, so it’s no use worrying; and two perhaps can be settled.”
570. “Stop letting people who do so little for you, control so much of your mind, feelings, and emotions.” – Unknown
571. “Anxiety happens when you think you have to figure it all at once. Breathe. You’re strong. You got this. Take it day by day.” – Karen Salmansohn
572. “The way you tell your story to yourself matters.” – Amy Cuddy
573. “The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms the basis of the general fear of life.” – Wilhelm Reich
574. “Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.” – Buddha
575. “The secret to living well is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple, and love without measure.” – Tibetan Proverb
576. “She was brave and strong and broken all at once.” – Anna Funder
577. “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.” ― Anaïs Nin (for more Anaïs Nin quotes, read this)
578. “Stress does more than make you sick it destroys your peace, hope, and dreams.” – Elle Sommer
579. “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” – Matthew 11:28-30
580. “Stop being tormented by everyone else’s reaction to you.” – Joyce Meyer
581. “It ain’t no use putting up your umbrella till it rains!”– Alice Caldwell Rice
582. “Remember: There is nothing wrong with having an anxiety attack. It doesn’t mean you’re weak or broken or flawed.” – Unknown
583. “I promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems. Nothing is worth diminishing your health. Nothing is worth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and fear.” – Steve Maraboli
584. “A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.” – Joyce Meyer
585. “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
586. “I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, not just for tomorrow, but in the here and now.” ~ Carl Sandburg
587. “Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.” – Thomas Carlyle
588. “Anxiety beclouds the future.” — Abraham Lincoln
589. “A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.”
590. “Chronic anxiety is a state more undesirable than any other, and we will try almost any maneuver to eliminate it. Modern man is living in anxious anticipation of destruction. Such anxiety can be easily eliminated by self-destruction. As a German saying puts it: ‘Better an end with terror than a terror without end.” – Robert E. Neale
591. “Don’t believe every worried thought you have. Worried thoughts are notoriously inaccurate.” – Renee Jain
592. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”
593. “Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.” – Kahlil Gibran
594. “You cannot always control what goes on outside, but you can always control what goes on inside.” ~ Wayne Dyer
595. “Your anxiety is lying to you. You are loved and are going to be okay.” – Unknown
596. “If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.” – Pema Chodron
597. “Life is not a dress rehearsal. Everyday, you should have at least one exquisite moment.” – Sally Karioth
598. “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”
599. “The life in front of you is far more important than the life behind you.” – Joel Osteen
600. “There are two ways to get rid of an anxiety monster, my friend—you either have a bath or a nap.”
601. “Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.” – Søren Kierkegaard
602. “In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining where we are.”
603. “All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
604. “Anxiety is the fear of more fear.”
605. The only way out is through. — Robert Frost
606. “Do what you can, with what you've got, where you are.”
607. “Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.” – Henry Ward Beecher
608. “Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest taken between two deep breaths.” – Etty Hillesum
609. “By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before.” – Edwin Elliot
610. “Worrying about outcomes over which I have no control is punishing myself before the universe has decided whether I ought to be punished.”
611. “There is nothing in this world that can trouble you as much as your own thoughts.”
612. “It’s OKAY to be scared. Being scared means you’re about to do something really, really brave.” – Mandy Hale
613. “Anxiety is a lot like a toddler. It never stops talking, tells you you’re wrong about everything, and wakes you up at 3 a.m.”
614. “In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.”
615. “Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it—just as we have learned to live with storms.”― Paulo Coelho
616. “Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.” — Walter Anderson
617. “Don’t believe every worried thought you have. Worried thoughts are notoriously inaccurate.” ~Renee Jain
618. “I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.” — Wayne Dyer
619. “In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived. How well we have loved. How well we have learned to let go.”
620. [Slow breathing] is like an anchor in the midst of an emotional storm: The anchor won't make the storm goes away, but it will hold you steady until it passes. — Russ Harris
621. “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.”
622. “The struggle for life is not only the material and economic one. Comfort is no protection from anxiety.” — Michelangelo Antonioni
623. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” ~ Henry Stanley Haskins
624. “Change is hard at first, messy in the middle, and gorgeous at the end.” – Robin Sharma
625. “Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
626. “Go easy on yourself. Whatever you do today, let it be enough.” – Buddhist Proverb
627. “Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not let them be afraid.” – John 14:27
628. “There are far, far better things ahead than anything we leave behind.” – C. S. Lewis
629. “My anxiety doesn’t come from thinking about the future but from wanting to control it.”—Hugh Prather
630. The perfect is the enemy of the good. — Voltaire
631. “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” ~ Epictetus
632. “Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.” – Jennifer Elisabeth
633. “Whatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not.”– Ana Monnar
634. “My anxiety doesn't come from thinking about the future but from wanting to control it.”
635. “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
636. “You don’t have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.”—Dan Millman
637. “It's sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age.”
638. A Different Perspective is Powerful
639. “Anxiety is a brain game. If you don’t allow an anxious feeling to begin, you don’t need to get rid of it.” ~ Invajy
640. “Sometimes, all you can do is lie in bed, and hope to fall asleep before you fall apart.” – William C. Hannan
641. “We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.” ― Christopher Hitchens
642. “Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.” – Mary Tyler Moore
643. “You are bigger than what it making you anxious.” – Unknown
644. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.”
645. “Worry in the dark can make it even darker.” ~ Camron Wright
646. “You can’t go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending.” ~ James R. Sherman
647. “Don’t be pushed by your problems, be led by your dreams.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
648. “Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”– Marcus Aurelius
649. “By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before.” – Edwin Elliot
650. “Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.” ~ Eckhart Tolle
651. “Sometimes, the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the best things that will ever happen to us.” ~Nicole Reed
652. “People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.” — George Bernard Shaw
653. “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
654. “You have a treasure within you that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.”– Eckhart Tolle
655. “Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.”
656. “I believe a lot of disease comes from anxiety, loneliness.” — Tom Cochrane
657. “Worry in the dark can make it even darker.” – Camron Wright
658. “Life is 10% of what you experience and 90% of how you respond to it.” ~ Dorothy M. Neddermeyer
659. “Don’t assume I’m weak because I have panic attacks. You’ll never know the amount of strength it takes to face the world every day.” – Unknown
660. “Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you because it will.” – Cheryl Strayed
661. There are Practical Ways to Calm Your Body and Soothe Anxiety
662. “When you overcome the obstacles, always look back and analyse – did that problem really worth that amount of anxiety?” ~ Invajy
663. “Just because I can’t explain the feelings causing my anxiety, doesn’t make them less valid.” –Lauren Elizabeth
664. “There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.”
665. “When teenagers experience mental health disorders such as social anxiety, mental health professionals can offer a structured and scaffolded framework of support with practical steps and goals.”
666. “Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.” — Solomon
667. “Our stresses, anxieties, pains, and problems arise because we do not see the world, others, or even ourselves as worthy of love.” ― Prem Prakash
668. “Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.”
669. “Anxiety, depression, and suicide don’t discriminate based on how much money you have – though it might make it easier for you to get help.” — Chelsea Manning
670. “Once you choose hope, anything is possible.” – Christopher Reeve
671. “It’s sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age.” – Amanda Seyfried
672. “In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived. How well we have loved. How well we have learned to let go.” ~ Jack Kornfield
673. “The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.” – Henry Miller
674. “Those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.”
675. “The way you tell your story to yourself matters.” ~ Amy Cuddy
676. “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
677. “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
678. “Everything you have ever wanted, is sitting on the other side of fear.” – George Addair
679. “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” ~ Confucius
680. “When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” – Wayne Dyer | Anxiety Quotes to Help You Cope With Your Worries | Best Stress and Anxiety Quotes
681. “The quality of your life is where you live emotionally.” – Tony Robbins
682. “You cannot heal in the same environment where you got sick.” – Unknown
683. “Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.” ― Kahlil Gibran
684. “Close your eyes and imagine the best version of you possible, that’s who you really are. Let go of any part of you that doesn’t believe it.” – C. Assaad
685. “The chill pill I took this morning seems to be a placebo.”
686. “No longer forward nor behind I look in hope and fear; But grateful take the good I find, The best of now and here.”
687. “You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.”
688. “When I was young I was very shy and that was my personality. I was a pretty sensitive kid and quite neurotic, filled with a lot of anxiety.” — Bruce Springsteen
689. “Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression… It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.”
690. “When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” – Wayne Dyer
691. “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.” – Joshua 1:9
692. “Anxiety is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but it doesn’t get you very far.” – Jodi Picoult
693. “If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.” – Mary Engelbreit
694. “No amount of anxiety can change the future. No amount of regret can change the past.” – Karen Salmansohn
695. “Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.” — Jamie Paolinetti
696. “Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, she became a butterfly.” ~ Barbara Haines Howett
697. “I have told you these things so that you may have peace. In this world, you will have trouble. But take heart. I have overcome the world.” – John 16:33
698. “Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.”
699. “We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure.”
700. “Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.” ~ Chinese proverb
701. “Feel the feeling but don’t become the emotion. Witness it. Allow it. Release it.” – Crystal Andrus
702. “Nothing is permanent in this wicked world — not even our troubles.” – Charlie Chaplin
703. “A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.” ~ Joyce Meyer
704. “The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” ~ William James
705. “Anxiety doesn’t come from thinking about the future but from wanting to control it.” ~ Kahlil Gibran
706. “When you feel overwhelmed, remember: A little at a time is how it gets done. One thing, one task, one moment at a time.”
707. “There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea.” — attributed to Bernard-Paul Heroux
708. “Many of us feel stress and get overwhelmed not because we’re taking on too much, but because we’re taking on too little of what really strengthens us.” ~ Marcus Buckingham
709. “Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.”
710. “Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.”
711. “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
712. “I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet a new person? I was very stunned by this for many years. And then I realized, you just say, “Hi.” They may ignore you. Or you may marry them. And that possibility is worth that one word.”— Augusten Burroughs
713. “You cannot always control what goes on outside, but you can always control what goes on inside.” – Wayne Dyer
714. “Hey you, keep living. It won’t always be this overwhelming.” – Jacqueline Whitney
715. “I couldn’t heal because I kept pretending I wasn’t hurt.” – Unknown
716. “Smile, breathe, and go slowly.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
717. “Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.”
718. “You have a treasure within you that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.” – Eckhart Tolle
719. “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.”
720. “Don’t believe every worried thought you have. Worried thoughts are notoriously inaccurate.”
721. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Henry S. Haskins
722. Science Says He Was Right
723. “We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure.” ~ Nick Saban
724. “Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.” ~ Madeleine L’Engle
725. “Nothing is permanent in this wicked world — not even our troubles.”
726. “When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.” – Winston Churchill
727. “Rule number one is, don’t sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it’s all small stuff.” — Robert Eliot
728. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
729. “Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.” — Swedish proverb
730. “No one can pray and worry at the same time.” – Max Lucado
731. “I made things a lot harder than they needed to be out of fear and anxiety.” — Sutton Foster
732. “There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
733. “Fear thrives in a place of inaction. Overcome your anxiety by taking one small step forward.” – Sarah Boyd
734. “Anxiety happens when you think you have to figure out everything all at once. Breathe. You’re strong. You got this. Take it day by day.” ~ Karen Salmansohn
735. “Everyone thinks I’m overdramatic when I’m stressed. When an octopus is stressed, it eats itself. Now that’s overdramatic.” – Unknown
736. “Don’t assume I’m weak because I have panic attacks. You’ll never know the amount of strength it takes to face the world every day.”
737. “The universe doesn’t allow perfection.” ~ Stephen Hawking
738. “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
739. “If we wanted to change the situation, we first had to change ourselves. And to change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.” ~ Stephen Covey
740. “He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.” ― Shannon L. Alder
741. “You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go, and see what happens.” – Mandy Hale
742. “I have two moods: constant panic and worry about every little detail and YOLO” – Unknown
743. “Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly.”
744. “A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.”
745. “Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” – Roy T. Bennet
746. “Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.” – William Shakespeare
747. “You can’t go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending.”
748. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Henry Stanley Haskins
749. There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature. –Henry David Thoreau
750. “You’ve tried enough. Maybe it’s time to let go.” – Unknown
751. “Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.” – Charles Spurgeon (For more on this topic, here is a collection of depression quotes.)
752. “Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.” — Saint Francis de Sales
753. “Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.” ~ A.A. Milne
754. “The best use of creativity is imagination. The worst use of creativity is anxiety.” – Deepak Chopra
755. “Anxiety’s like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you very far.”― Jodi Picoult
756. “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.” — Steven Hayes
757. “Social anxiety isn't a choice. I wish people knew how badly I wish I could be like everybody else, and how hard it is to be affected by something that can bring me to my knees every single day.”
758. “Do what you can, with what you’ve got, where you are.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
759. “Many of us feel stress and get overwhelmed not because we’re taking on too much, but because we’re taking on too little of what really strengthens us.” – Marcus Buckingham
760. “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
761. “Whatever you do, never run back to what broke you.” – Frank Ocean
762. “Worry is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do but never gets you anywhere.” – Erma Bombeck
763. “Worry is my worst enemy... an enemy I unleash upon myself.” — Terri Guillemets
764. “Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.” — Mary Hemingway
765. “You have dug your soul out of the dark, you have fought to be here; do not go back to what buried you.”
766. “Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.”
767. “Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.”
768. “Anything that costs you your peace is too expensive.” – Tenzin Gyatso
769. “Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.” – Rose Kennedy
770. “There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea.” – Bernard-Paul Heroux
771. “We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.”
772. “A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.” – Aesop
773. “Status and class and social anxiety and perhaps social code are all released when you look at paintings of powerful individuals from the past.” — Kehinde Wiley
774. “Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it's often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis.” – Brené Brown
775. “A beautiful day begins with a beautiful mindset.” – Unknown
776. “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.
777. “Self-observation is the first step of inner unfolding.”
778. “She has been through hell. So believe me when I say, fear her when she looks into a fire and smiles.” – E. Corona
779. “Today’s a perfect day for a whole new start. Let go of fear and free your mind. It’s time to open your heart.” – Chris Butler
780. “If you feel anxious about an event before it happens, you’ll put yourself through the same mental state twice instead of just once.” – Unknown
781. “Anxiety’s like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you very far.”
782. “Positive Self-Talk, Gratitude and physical fitness helps to control anxiety.” ~ Invajy
783. “Your mind will believe everything you tell it. Feed it love, truth, faith, and hope.”
784. “My anxiety doesn't come from thinking about the future but from wanting to control it.” — Hugh Prather, Notes to Myself
785. “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
786. “Nothing is permanent in this wicked world — not even our troubles.” ~ Charlie Chaplin
787. “Living a life somewhere else in your mind is nothing more than being a prisoner where you are.” ― Shannon L. Alder
788. “It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains!” – Alice Caldwell Rice
789. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
790. “Worrying is carrying tomorrow’s load with today’s strength — carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn’t empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
791. “The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.” – William James
792. “Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.” — Henry Ward Beecher
793. “Who’s not sat tense before his own heart’s curtain.”
794. “Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges.” ~ Bryant McGill
795. “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.”
796. “You’re a fighter. Look at everything you’ve overcome. Don’t give up now.” – Olivia Benson
797. “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
798. “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
799. “Like two swords can’t remain in same sheath; mindfulness and anxiety also can’t remain in same person. Live in the present moment.” ~ Invajy
800. “Some days, doing ‘the best we can’ may still fall short of what we would like to be able to do, but life isn’t perfect—on any front—and doing what we can with what we have is the most we should expect of ourselves or anyone else.”
801. “Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.” – Eckhart Tolle
802. “Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.” – Charles Spurgeon
803. “Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.”– Benjamin Franklin
804. “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.”
805. “I’m tired of fighting. For once, I want to be fought for.” – Unknown
806. “Stress is an ignorant state. It believes everything is an emergency.” — Natalie Goldberg
807. “Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.”
808. “Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you because it will.” ~ Cheryl Strayed
809. “Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.” ~ J. Donald Walters
810. “Cultivate calm and stillness: let go of anxiety as a lifestyle.” – Brené Brown
811. “Life is 10 percent what you experience and 90 percent how you respond to it.”
812. “Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset. What is anything in life compared to the peace of the soul?” – Francis de Sales
813. “Remember, you survived 100% of your worst days.”
814. “No amount of anxiety can change the future. No amount of regret can change the past.” ~ Karen Salmansohn
815. “Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.” – Epictetus
816. “At the end of the day, tell yourself gently: ‘I love you, you did the best you could today, and even if you didn’t accomplish all you had planned, I love you anyway.” – Anonymous
817. “Rule number one is, don’t sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it’s all small stuff.” – Robert Eliot
818. “The universe doesn’t allow perfection.” – Stephen Hawking
819. “You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.”
820. “That’s my anxiety dream. I go to the library and all the books on my subject are out.” — Judy Blume
821. “Anxiety is terrible, you could be having an attack and no one would even know, because it's an inward thing. It feels like you're malfunctioning and you can't process your own thoughts. You get a knot in your stomach and you can't take a full breath, but outwardly you can literally just sit there and look completely normal, as long as no one tries to speak to you.”
822. “More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.” – Roy T. Bennett
823. “Stress is self-created, I decided to stop manufacturing it. We can choose an internal calm and joy even amid the chaos.” – Brendon Burchard
824. “I can do all this through Him who gives me strength.” – Philippians 4:13
825. “If you feel like you’re losing everything, remember trees lose their leaves every year and they stand tall and wait for better days to come.” – Unknown
826. “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
827. “The past has no power over the present moment.” ~Eckhard Tolle
828. “Trust yourself. You’ve survived a lot, and you’ll survive whatever is coming.”
829. “Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.” ~ William S. Burroughs
830. “Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it—just as we have learned to live with storms.” ~ Paulo Coelho
831. “Freedom without security portends chaos, perpetual anxiety and fear.” — Zygmunt Bauman
832. “Stress is an ignorant state. It believes everything is an emergency.” – Natalie Goldberg
833. “I just give myself permission to suck…I find this hugely liberating.”
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