“Some people rarely venture outside of their comfort zone — but she’s outside of her comfort zone every damn day. She’s either worried about what to say or what to wear or where to park. She’s never relaxed. She’s always on edge. That’s why she’s always learning. Always growing. Every second of every…”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.com
“She’s strong, because she shows up, even when she’s shaking. She speaks, even when it’s with a cracked voice. She keeps breathing, even when those breaths are shaky.”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.com
“Anxiety is a constant state of worrying and panicking and being on the edge. It’s irrational fears. It’s thinking too much, it’s caring too much. Because the root of people with anxiety is caring.”— Kirsten Corley, thoughtcatalog.com
“Anxiety is an unanswered text that kills you inside even though you tell yourself, ‘maybe they’re busy or will answer later.’ Anxiety is that critical voice that says ‘maybe they’re deliberately ignoring you.’ It’s believing every negative scenario you can come up with.”— Kirsten Corley, thoughtcatalog.com
“Anxiety is the restless nights of sleep, as you toss and turn. It’s your brain never being able to shut off. It’s the thoughts you over-think before bedtime and all of your worst fears become a reality in dreams and nightmares. It’s waking up tired even though your day just started.”— Kirsten Corley, thoughtcatalog.com
“My happiness is trying to catch me but my anxiety is running too fast.”— Dagmara Cielecka, instagram.com
“What do you want? You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring. You can't want only to love, because that's impossible. What do you want?”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“She’s strong, because she shows up, even when she’s shaking. She speaks, even when it’s with a cracked voice. She keeps breathing, even when those breaths are shaky.”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.com
“People with anxiety are sensitive and old souls. They have so much heart. And they are going to pour all of their energy into this relationship.”— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, thoughtcatalog.com
“See? You never needed that wand or that cape. The power to feel unfocused shame and anxiety was within you this whole time.”— Night Vale podcast, twitter.com
“Living with anxiety is like being followed by a voice. It knows all your insecurities and uses them against you.”— Hayley Greenwood, thoughtcatalog.com
“I worry that I’ll never love anyone as much as the first person I ever fell in love with. I worry that someday I will love someone else as much as the first person I ever fell in love with, and that he will love someone else that much, too.”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com
“We must never forget to pray, and to ask God to remember us when He is arranging things, so that we too may feel safe and have no anxiety about what is going to happen.”— Johanna Spyri, amazon.com
“I think and think and think. I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“People with anxiety always feel alone in their own head, and also hate to feel like a burden to others.”— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, thoughtcatalog.com
“Anxiety can hit at any time. You feel like you're in an open field, and there's a tornado coming at you. And you're just consumed by it."”— Kim Basinger, azquotes.com
“This negative self-talk is something you probably aren't even aware of, but it eats away at you bit by bit and erodes that self-confidence you need to tackle your anxiety.”— Robert Duff, amazon.com
“SOME DAYS YOU WAKE AND IMMEDIATELY START TO WORRY. NOTHING IN PARTICULAR IS WRONG, IT¹S JUST THE SUSPICION THAT FORCES ARE ALIGNING QUIETLY AND THERE WILL BE TROUBLE.”— Jenny Holzer, flickr.com