A Quotes
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“Anxiety is the aspect of our fear that looks to the future, anticipating potential problems and dangers.”
“Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.”
Source: Nights at the circus
“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
Source: The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation in View of the Dogmatic Problem of Hereditary Sin
“Anxiety is the dizziness we experience when we recognize we hold the freedom and responsibility for our life choices. More than anyone, alcoholics have a very clear sense of this dizziness, especially when we were coming to realize our own powerlessness over alcohol and that we could act differently.”
“Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history.”
Source: THE CASE FOR MODERN MAN
“Anxiety is the experience of growth itself. In any endeavor, how do you feel when you go from one stage to the next? The answer: You feel anxious. Anxiety that is denied makes us ill; anxiety that is fully confronted and fully lived through converts itself into joy, security, strength, centeredness, and character. The practical formula: Go where the pain is.”
“Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever.”
“Anxiety is the gap between now and later.”
“Anxiety is the gap between the NOW and the THEN. So if you are in the NOW, you can't be anxious, because your excitement flows immediately into ongoing spontaneous activity.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.”
“Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.”
“Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.”
Source: Status Anxiety
“Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity”
“Anxiety is the illness of our age. We worry about ourselves, our family, our friends, our work, and our state of the world. If we allow worry to fill our hearts, sooner or later we will get sick.”
Source: The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
“Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity.”
Source: No Man Is an Island
“Anxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered in anything short of God and His will.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“Anxiety is the normality of our age.”
“Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries.”
Source: The New Dictionary of Thoughts
“Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where we may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, why this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events?”
Source: The New Dictionary of Thoughts
“Anxiety is the result of choice.”
“Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.”
Source: The New Dictionary of Thoughts
“Anxiety is the shadow of what we do not want to lose.”
“Anxiety is the starting point of any mental disorder.”
“Anxiety isn't an attack that explodes out of me; it's not a volcano that lies dormant until it's triggered by an earth-shattering event. It's a constant companion. Like a blowfly that gets into the house in the middle of summer, flying around and around. You can hear it buzzing, but you can't see it, can't capture it, can't let it out. My anxiety is invisible to others, but often it's the focal point on my mind. Everything that happens on a day-to-day basis is filtered through a lens colored by anxiety.”
“Anxiety,’ Kierkegaard wrote, in the middle of the nineteenth century, ‘is the dizziness of freedom.”
Source: How to Stop Time
“Anxiety leads to a narrowing of the field of attention, the so-called tunnel vision, and when people are anxious, they are unable to attend to the total situation as is necessary to enable them to act rationally, but impulsively do the first thing that comes into their heads which is usually determined by what others are doing at the same time.”
“Anxiety may consist of the loss of psychological or spiritual meaning which is identified with one's existence as a self, i.e., the threat of meaninglessness.”
“Anxiety must go. It must be replaced by faith and solemn confidence in the outworking of the divine plan.”
“Anxiety, panic, heartaches, depression, tremors, crying, are the signs that tells you to change either your path or you. It is you who will decide what to change!!”
“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.”
“Anxiety provokes us to choose short-term gains to compromise long-term benefits.”
Source: Quantraz
“Anxiety's already tingling my skin.”
Source: Mule
“Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far.”
Source: Sing You Home
“Anxiety, simply, is unacknowledged fears of the future.”
Source: Transcending Anxiety: From Fear to Freedom: Transforming Unacknowledged Fears Into a Life of Freedom and Happiness Book
“anxiety started early for me…
and it just became default.
like, some of us have never known ease.
we've known so much fear energy,
and we've spent our lives with this feeling…
like we're always on the verge of being in trouble
for something. it's intangible, but it's always there…
and the dream is to close our eyes someday
and to just feel safe, to feel held by
a universe that loves us.”
“Anxiety, trauma and crisis are necessary catalysts to stimulate self-consciousness.”
Source: The Rational Male
“Anxiety uses imagination to picture something you don't want. Vision uses imagination to picture something you DO want. Either way, you tend to get what you focus on. Imagine a future where you shine, others thrive, and the light of hope shines brighter in the world. If you can see it, you can be it.”
“Anxiety wants us to get organized and to be prepared. So if we want it to chill out, that's the first thing we should do.”
“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.”
“Anxiety was comfortable to me because it was familiar. If none existed, unconsciously I stirred it up to destroy the unfamiliarity of calm.”
“Anxiety was not an emotion I could ever remember feeling when I went out in New York, and I wondered why tonight felt so different. Maybe it was because I no longer had a boyfriend or fiance. I suddenly recognized that there was safety in having someone, as well as a lack of pressure to shine. Ironically, this had cultivated a certain free-spiritedness that had, in turn, allowed me to be the life of the party and hoard the affection of additional men....But that had all changed. I didn't have a boyfriend, a perfect figure, or alcohol-induced outrageousness to fall back on.”
“Anxiety was the great silencer.”
Source: Four Letter Word
“Anxiety will bear a lot of nuisance.”
“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.”
“Anxiety, it just stops your life.”
“Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.”
Source: The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering Into Peace, Joy, & Liberation : the Four Noble Truths, the Noble Eightfold Path, & Other Basic Buddhist Teachings
“Anxious and angry relatives are a burden all doctors must bear, but having been one myself was an important part of my medical education.”
Source: Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery
“Anxious behaviour is rewarded in our culture. Being high strung, wound up, frenetic and soooo busy has cachet. I ask someone, “How are you?” and even if they’re kicking back in a caravan park in the outback with a beer watching the sunset, their default response is, “Gosh, so busy, out of control, crazy times.” And they wear it as a badge of honour.
This means that many of us deny we have a problem and keep going and going. Indeed, the more anxious we are, the more we have to convince ourselves we don’t have a problem. This is ironic, or paradoxical. And it seems awfully cruel.”
Source: First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Story About Anxiety
“Anxious care is out of place in a heavenly Father's presence.”
“Anxious hearts strike, while ticking clock arms run
Better days ahead, glistens the noon’s sun,
Light bearer over land since time begun.
I’ve illumed, been eclipsed, I’ve seen both sides;
The moon and I have danced on heavy tides,
Stay true to your nature, strong on your feet;
For no hardship faced is beyond defeat.”