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“Anxiety and stress-related mental dysfunction is the plague of modern-day society. Millions of people are tormented by anxious thinking and the consequent distress this brings, irrespective of whether they live in a mansion or a bed-sit or whether they earn millions or are living on the breadline. This would indicate that external circumstances cannot prevent or cause pathological anxiety or free people from negative emotions.”
Source: Mindfulness Meditation: Bringing Mindfulness into Everyday Life
“Anxiety, and the physical symptoms it causes, is merely fog along the path of independence and discovery.”
Source: Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
“Anxiety arises in response to the perception of danger and is logical unless the perception is illogical, as is often the case. The anxious person tends to anticipate danger, often where there is little or none. This is the nature of the human animal. However, he or she is often not aware of this anxiety, for it is generated in the unconscious out of feelings that are largely unconscious and are kept in the unconscious through the well-known mechanism of repression. Because of the unpleasant, embarrassing, often painful nature of these feelings and the anxiety they generate, there is a strong need to keep them out of consciousness, which is the purpose of repression. As will be seen later, the purpose of TMS is to assist in the process of repression.”
Source: Healing Back Pain
“Anxiety arises in response to the perception of danger and is logical unless the perception is illogical, as is often the case. The anxious person tends to anticipate danger, often where there is little or none. This is the nature of the human animal. However, he or she is often not aware of this anxiety, for it is generated in the unconscious out of feelings that are largely unconscious and are kept in the unconscious through the well-known mechanism of repression. Because of the unpleasant, embarrassing, often painful nature of these feelings and the anxiety they generate, there is a strong need to keep them out of consciousness, which is the purpose of repression. As will be seen later, the purpose of TMS is to assist in the process of repression. (page 43)”
“Anxiety beclouds the future.”
Source: The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)
“Anxiety can make anybody act nasty, big or small. You will be tested for your strength, and if you are seen as too weak, you will sometimes be treated abusively, discarded and avoided. I'm not saying that this should happen. I'm simply describing human beings as they are.”
“Anxiety can often make us closed off to the world. Taking risks and putting yourself out there can become an insurmountable obstacle. Letting go of our anxiety doesn't just improve our life. It improves the lives of those around us as well.”
“Anxiety can only expedite your stress, not your success.”
Source: Quantraz
“Anxiety checks learning. A feeling of well being and respect stimulates an alert mind.”
“Anxiety comes into existence only when we become identified with small things. And they all pass.”
“Anxiety destroys scale, and suffering makes us lose perspective.”
Source: There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction
“Anxiety does not take away stress; it just enhances it. If you accept changes with optimism and love, anxiety will melt away.”
“Anxiety fighters are warriors, sent into battle on a hope and a prayer, to fight a demon that only exists in the recesses of their mind.”
Source: How the Light Comes In: A memoir of hope and healing on the path with anxiety.
“Anxiety finds its roots in our relentless desire to hold the reins of the future, not in the uncertainty it holds.”
Source: Journey of Soul - Karma
“Anxiety has afflicted me all my life.”
“Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.”
“Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love.”
Source: Three contributions to the theory of sex
“Anxiety is a cage for the idle dreamer,
But a ladder for the fearless achiever.”
“Anxiety is a deep conscious breath away from dissolving.”
“Anxiety is a living body,
Poised beside us like a shadow.
It is the last creature standing,
The only beast who loves us
Enough to stay.”
Source: Call Us What We Carry
“Anxiety is a natural thing humans have. You know, that's how we evolve. That's how we are, you know, we think things through. Sometimes my mind just thinks things through a lot.”
“Anxiety is a normal part of human existence, as are other forms of suffering. It is repression of our negative feelings that leads to psychological problems.”
Source: Psychology in Minutes: 200 Key Concepts Explained in an Instant
“Anxiety is an even better teacher than reality, for one can temporarily evade reality by avoiding the distasteful situation; but anxiety is a source of education always present because one carries it within.”
Source: The Meaning Of Anxiety
“Anxiety is an extension of the dynamics of fear. It's the feeling of fear without an awareness of the object of your fear. All you know is that you're fearful, but you can't specify exactly what you are afraid of. You just worry about everything.”
“Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.”
“Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance. Tell yourself enough vivid stories about the worst possible outcome of your work and you'll soon come to believe them. Worry is not preparation, and anxiety doesn't make you better.”
Source: V Is for Vulnerable: Life Outside the Comfort Zone
“Anxiety is feeling terrified about my lack of control over anything, and obsessing is my antidote.”
Source: Untamed
“Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it into a defense.”
“Anxiety is just our brain’s way of trying to keep us alive and
well; it is simply, and fortunately, one of our many in-built survival
mechanisms. Just as we feel pain when we burn our skin which
tells us to move away from the cause of the pain, we experience
anxiety when the brain perceives a threat to our well-being and is
telling us to prevent or extinguish the threat/danger.”
Source: Anxiety Free: How to Trust Yourself and Feel Calm
“Anxiety is like a drama queen, always exaggerating and pulling tricks out of its sleeve. But guess what? You've got the wit to see through its act! You're acing this life game, and success is your middle name! So, show anxiety at the exit door, 'cause you're destined for greatness, and nothing can stop you from achieving it!”
“Anxiety is love's greatest killer, because it is like the stranglehold of the drowning.”
“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.”
“Anxiety is loves greatest killer.”
“Anxiety is natural and to be expected, just like a boat rocks in the waves. You can be as anxious as you need to in order to meet your short-term financial goals, but you can’t let yourself lose track of your destination because you’re trapped in anxiety.”
Source: The Having: The Secret Art of Feeling and Growing Rich
“Anxiety is not a passive predator.”
Source: This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
“Anxiety is not fear, being afraid of this or that definite object, but the uncanny feeling of being afraid of nothing at all. It is precisely Nothingness that makes itself present and felt as the object of our dread.”
“Anxiety is not intended for us to live with it. You use anxiety to your advantage to protect your mental and physical well-being and survival from a threat or danger.”
Source: Anxiety Free: How to Trust Yourself and Feel Calm
“Anxiety is not only an inevitable part of the writing process but a necessary part. If you’re not scared, you’re not writing.”
Source: The Courage to Write: How Writers Transcend Fear
“Anxiety is not to be managed it is a sin that needs to be repented of”
“Anxiety is our agitated soul scrambling for control.”
“Anxiety is our friend, not our
enemy. Even when anxiety is severe and out of control, it’s still
our friend because it’s telling us something seriously needs
addressing in order for us to survive and thrive, even if that severe
anxiety is a sign that our alerting system is unnecessarily working
overtime or even ‘malfunctioning’ of sorts.”
Source: Anxiety Free: How to Trust Yourself and Feel Calm
“Anxiety is our inability to connect with realities.”
Source: Quantraz
“Anxiety is our inability to gather enough patience within ourselves to act in the best interest of the long-term benefits.”
Source: Quantraz
“Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.”
“Anxiety is practising failure in advance. Anxiety is needless and imaginary. It's fear about fear, fear that means nothing.”
Source: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? How to drive your career and create a remarkable future
“Anxiety is secretive. He does not trust anyone, not even his friends, Worry, Terror, Doubt and Panic ... He likes to visit me late at night when I am alone and exhausted. I have never slept with him, but he kissed me on the forehead once, and I had a headache for two years.”
“Anxiety is simply living out the future before it gets here.”
“Anxiety is so pervasive in my work, it's like it's not even a thing because it's always there. Like air. I have to work through a layer of anxiety to get to anything else. It's embarrassing to me when people point out to me all the anxiety I portray in my work. I don't ever want to write about anxiety again but it'd be like leaving a huge gap in the picture.”
“Anxiety is sort of the opposite of ego. You're so sure you'll do everything wrong you're afraid to do anything at all. It results from over-motivation- leading to errors that lead to an underestimation of one's self. Work out your anxieties on paper and read. This calms the mind.”
“Anxiety is the arrow that flies too far, missing the target of 'Now' in its hunger for 'Then.' Happiness is not the prize at the end of the race; it is the rhythm of the heart during the run.”
Source: The Sages of the Hidden Road: A Parable for the Weary Soul