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28 Quotes Anyone Who Lives With Anxiety Will Understand And Appreciate

Just because someone lives with anxiety, it doesn't mean that their anxiety defines them.
Brianna Wiest
September 6, 2016
“Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.”
— Keith Caserta, Soul Searching (The Nodes of God Book 1)
Tagged: worry, Anxiety, Future
“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, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Tagged: Health, Stress, Anxiety, Fear
“Anxiety is a feeling grown too large. A feeling grown aggressive and dangerous. You're responsible for it's consequences, you're responsible for treating it. But Michael, you're not responsible for causing it. You're not morally at fault for it. No more than you would be for a tumor.”
— Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here
Tagged: Anxiety, Feelings
“Depression is the flaw in love... There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss, and that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy.”
— Andrew Solomon, Transcript of "Depression, the secret we share"
Tagged: Depression, Anxiety, Afraid, Life
“Whatever you do, never let yourself believe that your anxiety makes you unlovable.”
— Holly Riordan, Date Someone Who Can Ease Your Anxiety
Tagged: Anxiety, Dating, Dating & Anxiety
“If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.”
— Amit Ray, OM Chanting and Meditation
Tagged: Anxiety, Depression, live in the moment
“But as soon as one is at rest in this world off he goes on something else to worry about.”
— Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Tagged: Mind, Thoughts, worry, Anxiety, Thinking, Rest, peacefulness, no rest, riddled with worry, Anxious, deep thinker, headcase
“The more I think about it, the more I realize that overthinking isn't the real problem. The real problem is that we don't trust.”
— L.J Vanier, Ether: Into the Nemesis
Tagged: Overthinking, Over Thinker, Trust, Anxiety, Love
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
— Albert Einstein, 51 Quotes to Help You Stop Over Thinking
Tagged: Over-Thinker, Overthinking, Relationships, Life, worry, Anxiety
“Please, don’t worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting.”
— Robin Williams, Jack
Tagged: Robin Williams Quotes, Robin Williams, worry, Anxiety
“Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.”
— Kahlil Gibran, Living Up In A Down World
Tagged: Future, Anxiety, Control
“All of those fears you had in the past, those vintage anxieties that kept you up in 2004, where are they now? That’s right, they’re gone. You killed all of them. You got over it. You lived.”
— Ryan O'Connell, Why You Shouldn’t Be So Freaked Out About Your Future
Tagged: Future, Fear, Anxiety
“Thoughts are like drops of water filling an enormous pot. The pot is your life. Do you want your life filled with negative thoughts or healthy thoughts? It happens one ‘drop’ at a time. Patience is the key.”
— Lawrence Wallace, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: 7 Ways to Freedom from Anxiety, Depression, and Intrusive Thoughts (Training, Techniques, Course, Self-Help)
Tagged: Understanding Anxiety, Anxiety
“Anxiety’s like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you very far.”
— Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home: A Novel
Tagged: Understanding Anxiety, Anxiety, Anxiety Disorder
“Just because someone lives with anxiety, it doesn’t mean that their anxiety defines them.”
— Koty Neelis, 14 Things To Remember When You Love A Person With Anxiety
Tagged: Anxiety Disorder, Understanding Anxiety, Anxiety
“The scientists found that those with anxiety experienced lasting plasticity long after an emotional experience (aka a ‘stimulus’) ended. This means the brain was unable to distinguish new, irrelevant situations from something that’s familiar or non-threatening, resulting in anxiety. In other words, anxious individuals tend to overgeneralize emotional experiences, whether they are threatening or not.

Most importantly, researchers noted, this reaction is not something that an anxious individual can control, because it’s a fundamental brain difference.”
— Lindsay Holmes, People With Anxiety Perceive The World Differently
Tagged: Anxiety, Understanding Anxiety, Anxiety Disorder
“The better you can learn to tolerate the discomfort of anxiety and recognize it as temporary, the less it will disrupt your life.”
— Robert Duff, Hardcore Self Help: F**k Anxiety
Tagged: Anxiety
“You can help temper yourself to better withstand anxiety by allowing yourself to gain exposure to the things that cause you anxiety.”
— Robert Duff, Hardcore Self Help: F**k Anxiety
Tagged: Anxiety
“One of the things that really maintains and worsens anxiety symptoms and panic symptoms is the phenomenon of getting worked up about the symptoms themselves.”
— Robert Duff, Hardcore Self Help: F**k Anxiety
Tagged: Anxiety
“Not everything is black and white, but when you engage in polarized thinking, there are no such things as shades of grey.”
— Robert Duff, Hardcore Self Help: F**k Anxiety
Tagged: Anxiety
“YOU NEED TO TAKE A DAMN BREAK. Actually, you need to take several breaks. Actually, you should take several breaks EVERY DAY. I know. Crazy concept, right? When you relax and recharge, you are gaining strength and clarity. You are enabling yourself to work, make decisions, and just exist more efficiently and effectively in the future.”
— Robert Duff, Hardcore Self Help: F**k Anxiety
Tagged: Anxiety, relax, Chill Out, Just Chill
“Fighting against your thoughts is not an effective strategy, so what you can do instead is focus on replacement language. Give yourself some mantras to repeat to yourself throughout the day or when you are actively experiencing symptoms.”
— Robert Duff, Hardcore Self Help: F**k Anxiety
Tagged: Anxiety
“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, The Desire Map: A Guide to Creating Goals with Soul
“Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it. Let go & it will be yours forever.”
— Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams
“If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and punish you for another.

The universe has no fixed agenda. Once you make any decision, it works around that decision. There is no right or wrong, only a series of possibilities that shift with each thought, feeling, and action that you experience.

If this sounds too mystical, refer again to the body. Every significant vital sign- body temperature, heart rate, oxygen consumption, hormone level, brain activity, and so on- alters the moment you decide to do anything… decisions are signals telling your body, mind, and environment to move in a certain direction.”
— Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams
“The more honest you are, the more open, the less fear you will have, because there's no anxiety about being exposed or revealed to others.”
— Dalai Lama XIV, The Art of Happiness
“When people hurt it is because they feel they are going to lose something. The questions to ask is: What? [And will you really?]”
— Shannon L. Alder, 300 Questions To Ask Your Parents Before It's Too Late
“Survivors create survival mechanisms. Mine is pushing through. I push everything to the side, out of my line of vision, out of my mind and I focus relentlessly on my goal. Not sure what you’d call it, but who cares? I’m a fighter and that’s enough. I live each day happy to wake up each morning to my children’s bright eyes and warm cheeks. If pushing through gives me more days with the family I’ve created, with my writing, with my loves— fine by me. Call it what you want. I call it living.”
— Rachel Thompson, Broken Places: A Memoir of Abuse