“Don’t sabotage yourself. There are enough people out there who’ll do it for you. Don’t let the assholes win.”— Adam Gnade, amazon.com
“If you’re not grappling with self-doubt half the time, you’ve probably lost perspective. The confident ones give us the worst and most lifeless bullshit.”— Adam Gnade, amazon.com
“I’m seeing the circular conversations of stress and fatalism and the bad cycles of self-doubt. It’s all a product of fear. I’m afraid of tomorrow, and I’m afraid of next week and I’m afraid that each choice I make will be the one I’ll look back on and regret forever… life’s a sh*t business sometimes…”— Adam Gnade, amazon.com
“High functioning anxiety can truly make us into our own worst enemies.”— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, thoughtcatalog.com
“We are incredibly mean to ourselves when we make mistakes, no matter how easy it was for us to make it. We beat ourselves up in our heads day in and day out. We don’t know how to tell ourselves that it is ok.”— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, thoughtcatalog.com
“You do everything in your power to make it stop, but you can’t help but feel the aches in your shoulders, and feel your heart beat speed up like a wildfire. You look put together. You look like you have your life together. But inside? You feel like you are dying.”— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, thoughtcatalog.com
“You obsess over everything in your head. Most likely, the things you obsess about would never cross someone’s mind who doesn’t have anxiety.”— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, thoughtcatalog.com
“Anxiety is procrastination because you’re paralyzed with fear of failing so you hold it off.”— Kirsten Corley, thoughtcatalog.com
“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 the time you spend waiting for an answer as a scenario plays out in your mind of what they could be thinking or are they mad? Anxiety is an unanswered text that kills you inside”— Kirsten Corley, thoughtcatalog.com
“Anxiety is wanting to fix something that isn’t even a problem. It’s the stream of questions that make you doubt yourself.”— Kirsten Corley, thoughtcatalog.com
“Don’t hold your breath or let anxiety tighten it up. Breathe into your pleasure, breathe into your body, keep it moving and you can breathe yourself right into a nice juicy orgasm. Keep breathing into it and your climax will be bigger and better.”— Sheri Winston, yourtango.com
“A man does not really begin to be alive until he has lost himself, until he has released the anxious grasp which he normally holds upon his life, his property, his reputation and position.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“To remain stable is to refrain from trying to separate yourself from a pain because you know that you cannot. Running away from fear is fear, fighting pain is pain, trying to be brave is being scared. If the mind is in pain, the mind is pain. The thinker has no other form than his thought. There is…”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“It’s like when someone says, ‘How are you?’ Do you say, ‘Well, my head hurts and I’m lonely and depressed and I’m worried about everything and the world is collapsing and full of evil’? Or do you say, ‘I’m fine’?”— Sara Shepard, amazon.com
“I’m tired of people telling me to ‘stop thinking negatively’ and to ‘just let it go’ and ‘stop trying to control everything’ because I can’t. People need to understand that anxiety is a mental health disorder, and it can’t just be turned off.”— Elizabeth Weinberger, thoughtcatalog.com