Worry stagnates the mind, creates an imbalance in the immune system, and impairs the ability to see beyond the thing being worried about.
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Quotes tagged ‘Anxiety’
Psychopaths have little aptitude for experiencing the emotional responses – fear and anxiety – that are the mainsprings of conscience.
The word “suffer” comes from a Latin word meaning to bear, to carry, or to endure. When we suffer our fate rather than avoiding it, we become actors in our own drama. Suffering becomes part of our personal story, that with which we must wrestle. In the words of Rilke, it is a “harsh hand that kneads…
If anxiety is our chief malady, avoidance is its coddling nurse, always ready to assure us we need not risk confrontation with that which makes us uncomfortable.
An October 2017 New York Times article entitled “Why Are More American Teenagers Than Ever Suffering From Extreme Anxiety?” looked at the rising tide of teen anxiety in the United States. Increasing academic pressures, the advent of smart phones, and ubiquitous social media use were explored as pote…
What am I scared of? I'm scared of the same thing that you are, everything.
What's brutal about the date is the scrutiny that you put each other through. Because whenever you think about this person in terms of the future, you have to magnify everything about them. You know, like the guy'll be like 'I don't think her eyebrows are even. Could I look at uneven eyebrows for th…
— Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com
For me to ask a woman out I gotta get into a mental state like the karate guys before they break the bricks.
— Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com
The people who struggle most with anxiety are people with a ton of latent potential.
Anxiety is what happens when you have an absolutely ridiculous thought… but then you start to believe it.
I'm not an actress but my anxiety has turned me into one. You only see the outer me having a good time. You don't see the inner me, bleeding and begging to just go home.
That thing that was the most embarrassing thing that ever happened to you, probably no one noticed or cared, and if they did, they forgot about in two minutes.
My anxiety is a child who plays tag with my intestines, braids fishtails with my pulse. While she naps unseen under caramel moons, I wake to find her blameless.
Don't forget love isn't supposed to cause you anxiety or stress!
There’s something off about that girl. Borderline. Any little shock could push her right over the edge.
nailbiter, n.: I take it out on myself, but only in ways I know I’ll survive.
Death is fine, but dying itself - the inability to breathe, the final panic attack - is really scary.
Tell your brain to shut up sometimes, when it’s being negative or panicky or afraid. Breathe.
Is dying harder than being already dead?
I used to spend a lot of time burning with anxiety. That happens when you imagine that you're less than infinite.