“The doctor says it’s asthma. The psychiatrist says it’s anxiety. But deep down inside I know that the day you walked out, the day you told me to go was the day I stopped knowing how to breathe.”— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, amazon.com
“...with trembling anxiety I had been permitted to watch over and minister to my idolized husband, through an illness and receiving his loving farewell words in return, I could have thanked him for his lifelong - almost; devotion to me & mine, and I could have asked forgiveness, for any inadvertent m…”— Mary Todd Lincoln, amazon.com
“It's a relief to see a monster on the screen instead of feeling it in my chest.”— Lindsay King-Miller, vice.com
“When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.”— Dale Carnegie, amazon.com
“It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.”— Wayne Dyer, pin.it
“Depression and Anxiety is like radiation. There’s always a little bit of it in the background but not enough to kill you. Then once in a while you get a free trip to Chernobyl.”— just-shower-thoughts, just-shower-thoughts.tumblr.com
“When you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. Forever.”— Alan Moore, amazon.com
“Why was six afraid of seven? Because six realized that it is a number, which brought on anxieties that numbers haven't previously faced.”— supersonicmike, reddit.com
“If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death.”— Paul Lynde, dictionary.net
“Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.”— Khalil Gibran, goodreads.com
“I guess my life hasn’t always been happy, or easy, or exactly what I wanted. At a certain point, I just have to try not to think too much about certain things, or else they’ll break my heart.”— Jonathan Franzen, amazon.com
“I will accept any amount of monsters my mind wants to give to me, but I will not become a monster myself.”— Marissa Meyer, amazon.com
“All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry—all forms of fear—are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness a…”— Eckhart Tolle, amazon.com
“For so many years, I couldn’t understand why every time I thought that someone finally loved me… they would eventually turn to vapor. Every person whom I’ve ever loved is trapped inside of my chest. I’ve breathed all of them in so deeply that I’ve nearly choked and died on every soul that I’ve ever…”— Jennifer Elisabeth, amazon.com