46 Quotes by Anne Wilson Schaef

Almost everyone seems to worry about something, and yet, we rarely talk about worry as a problem. Maybe that is because worry is so integrated into the way we have come to live and be in the world that we don't even notice it.

All of us need to talk to someone who's interesting, intelligent, knows us well, and is on our side - and that's us. We're probably the most interesting person we know.

Our culture has valued closed systems and tries to generate them in all walks of life. Women are better at and more comfortable with open systems, which occur naturally in nature.

What we perceive as a failure may simply be our inner being's way of telling us that we are ready to move to a new level of growth.

Knowing ourselves and how we feel can help us improve.

Healthy people live with their world.

One of the ways worriers have learned to cope is by not telling others about our worrying for fear they will start worrying.

Somehow, we believe we are such good cons that if we don't tell others about our worrying they will not know that we are worrying.

It's difficult to see our worry as self-centered even when we are worrying about ourselves.