#anxiety

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 Warren

#prayer #worry #worship #purpose

I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own web of shyness and reserve, and in their blindness and folly built up a great distorted wall in front of them that hid the truth. ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#social-anxiety #truth #socialism

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. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#mankind

Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future; it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable. ↗

— Martha Beck

#anxiety #anything #associated #focused #future

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence. ↗

— Angela Carter

#beginning #compatible #conscience #innocence #parent

And I kind of said to myself if I get my voice back I'm not going to take back the old anxiety about it and just focus on the limitations. I'm really going to enjoy it. ↗

— Rosanne Cash

#anxiety #back #enjoy #focus #get

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it. ↗

— Ovid

#anxiety #goes #pleasure #pure #some

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within. ↗

— David Duchovny

#creativity #get #need #out #part

It's quite pretentious, really, isn't it? The notion the audience is going to be interested in you for an hour and a half. Think too much about that and anxiety takes over. ↗

— Jean Dujardin

#anxiety #audience #going #half #hour

I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#anxiety #back #cases #compulsively #depression