2,259 Quotes About Anxiety

I can do this… I can start over. I can save my own life and I’m never going to be alone as long as I have stars to wish on and people to still love.

God knows your every need.

Not being in the present moment is no less foolish than looking forward to the past.

Breathing is our participation with the cosmic dance. When our breath is in harmony, cosmos nourishes us in every sense.

No amount of me trying to explain myself was doing any good. I didn't even know what was going on inside of me, so how could I have explained it to them?

Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back. I’m going to help you forgive the things that you won’t let yourself forget.

Either way, whether your anxiety is self-generated or externally-generated or both, your brain still needs to sound the alarm – and thank goodness it does! It’s essentially telling you: ‘Warning, something is sabotaging or might sabotage your goals, health, happiness and survival – find it, fix it!’ to which your mental response should be, ‘Gee, thanks, I’m on it!

Anxiety is just our brain’s way of trying to keep us alive andwell; it is simply, and fortunately, one of our many in-built survivalmechanisms. Just as we feel pain when we burn our skin whichtells us to move away from the cause of the pain, we experienceanxiety when the brain perceives a threat to our well-being and istelling us to prevent or extinguish the threat/danger.

Anxiety is our friend, not our enemy. Even when anxiety is severe and out of control, it’s stillour friend because it’s telling us something seriously needsaddressing in order for us to survive and thrive, even if that severeanxiety is a sign that our alerting system is unnecessarily workingovertime or even ‘malfunctioning’ of sorts.