Anxiety proverbs

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◆ 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 Boom99

◆ 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 Warren99

◆ It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.

- David Foster Wallace99

◆ 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 Maraboli99

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

- Dorothy M. Neddermeyer99

◆ Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths.

- Charles H. Spurgeon99

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

- Jodi Picoult99

◆ 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.

- S?ren Kierkegaard99

◆ If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.

- Amit Ray99

◆ Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems

- Epictetus99

◆ 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 Niequist99

◆ I have always found it odd that people who think passive aggressively ignoring a person is making a point to them. The only point it makes to anyone is your inability to articulate your point of view because deep down you know you can't win. It's better to assert yourself and tell the person you are moving on without them and why, rather than leave a lasting impression of cowardness on your part in a person's mind by avoiding them.

- Shannon L. Alder99

◆ But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window--maybe rearrange all the furniture.

- Raymond Carver99

◆ Temperamentally anxious people can have a hard time staying motivated, period, because their intense focus on their worries distracts them from their goals.

- Winifred Gallagher99

◆ It was that sort of sleep in which you wake every hour and think to yourself that you have not been sleeping at all; you can remember dreams that are like reflections, daytime thinking slightly warped.

- Kim Stanley Robinson99