Anxiety Quotes - Page 13

• Mothers ought to bring up and nurse their own children; for they bring them up with greater affection and with greater anxiety, as loving them from the heart, and so to speak, every inch of them.

  Plutarch

  Mother, Children, Heart

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• Character begins to form at the first pinch of anxiety about ourselves.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Character, Firsts, Form

  Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (1989). “Early Poems”, Marion Boyars Publishers

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• Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

  George Santayana

  Life, Honor, Shapes

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• We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to being late, but to having to see them at all.

  Cyril Connolly

  People, Waiting, Wish

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• A doctor recently described to me "benign positional vertigo": it means you get dizzy in certain positions, but you can get over it without necessarily changing the position. Change "vertigo" to "anxiety," and you've summed up the neurotic's plight.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Mean, Doctors, Plight

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.89, BookBaby

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• From restless thoughts, that, like a deadly swarm Of hornets arm'd, no sooner found alone, But rush upon me thronging.

  John Milton

  Thinking, Arms, Restless

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton (1831). “Paradise Lost : a Poem in Twelve Books”, p.96

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• Many of the snarly bad-tempered teachers whom we remember with hatred were really nice people soured by years of anxiety and penny-pinching.

  Gilbert Highet

  Teacher, Nice, Years

  GILBERT HIGHET (1950). “THE ART OF TEACHING”

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• It's okay to be two things at once and a paradox. Everybody is. As humans for survival we like to label things in a split second. It is how we don't implode from anxiety.

  Kathryn Hahn

  Survival, Paradox, Okay

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• The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned with making a display than with living. Whoever feels observed observes himself.

  Andre Gide

  Cutting, Vanity, Figures

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• Without anxiety life would have very little savor.

  May Sarton

  Littles

  May Sarton (2014). “The House by the Sea: A Journal”, p.38, Open Road Media

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• Seems like half my anxiety dreams are about airports.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Dream, Airports, Half

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• It is only when we want to take our lives out of the Father’s hands and have them under our own control that we find ourselves gripped with anxiety. The secret of freedom from anxiety is freedom from ourselves and abandonment of our own plans. But that spirit emerges in our lives only when our minds are filled with the knowledge that our Father can be trusted implicitly to supply everything we need.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Father, Hands, Secret

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• Many teenagers are tormented by terrors they deem private and personal. They do not know that their anxieties and doubts are universal.

  Haim Ginott

  Teenager, Insecurity, Doubt

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• I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fancy Cars, Heaven, Solitude

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.60

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• One of the by-products of being a perfectionist and constantly trying to improve myself are sobering feelings of low-grade anxiety and a nagging sense of inadequacy This anxiety keeps me humble.

  Anthony S. Fauci

  Humble, Feelings, Trying

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• No one is moved to act, or resolves to speak a single word, who does not hope by means of this action or word to release anxiety from his spirit.

  Ibn Hazm

  Mean, Doe, Spirit

  Epistle on the to Apply to Souls Sect. 1

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• One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. He only is right who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded by worry, fret and anxiety. Finish every day, and be done with it. You have done what you could.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Heart, Years

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• The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Half, Drowning, Neurotic

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.105, BookBaby

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• Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Neurotic, Accidents

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.67, BookBaby

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• When you're gripped by anxiety, worry, insomnia, or panic, make yourself shiver, quiver, tremble, and shudder. It seems silly, but it really works.

  Jude Bijou

  Silly, Insomnia, Worry

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• Concerning the factors of silence, solitude and darkness, we can only say that they are actually elements in the production of the infantile anxiety from which the majority of human beings have never become quite free.

  Sigmund Freud

  Silence, Darkness, Solitude

  Sigmund Freud (1997). “Writings on Art and Literature”, p.229, Stanford University Press

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• Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry

  Eckhart Tolle

  Stress, Worry, Power Of Now

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.61, New World Library

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• Anxiety is a deep conscious breath away from dissolving.

  Michael Dolan

  Worry, Conscious, Breaths

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• Fear, born of the stern matron Responsibility, sits on one's shoulders like some heavy imp of darkness, and one is preoccupied and, possibly, cantankerous.

  William McFee

  Responsibility, Darkness, Born

  William McFee (1921). “Harbours of Memory”

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• The cure to combat the three Ss- stress, strain, and speed- can be found in three Ws- the work of devoted practice, the wisdom that comes of understanding the self and the world, and worship because ultimately surrendering to what we cannot control allows the ego to relax and lose the anxiety of its own infinitesimally small self in the infinitude of the divine.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Stress, Self, Practice

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