Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Ellis

Whenever you avoid alarming situations, you almost always increase your anxiety about them.

Conrad Burns

Therapy is not to 'talk about' things, but to change the person's life, and to relieve suffering, such as depression, anxiety, or relationship problems.

Don DeLillo

Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?' What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing

Clive Barker

Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this.

David Foster Wallace

It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.

Confucius

If you reflect within yourself and find nothing to be ashamed of, how could you have anxiety or fear.

Daniel Yergin

We are living in a new age of energy supply anxiety.

Dalia Mogahed

As Donald Trump continues to dominate the 2016 field, the Republican establishment's low-grade anxiety is becoming an all-out panic

Alona Tal

I always had a weird thing with being the last person somewhere like a movie theater or a classroom. I get a weird sense of anxiety.

Andy Stanley

Which of these statements creates more anxiety in you: 'There is no God' or 'There is no money'?

Anatole Broyard

Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety.

Anais Nin

Anxiety is love's greatest killer, because it is like the stranglehold of the drowning.

D. B. Weiss

Who doesn't love 'Frogger?' It draws its power from our shared memories of powerlessness. Wherever we are now, at one time or another we have all felt the poor frog's anxiety in the face of the world's intransigence, its blind and callous disregard for our happiness or well-being.

When it's out of the ordinary or has a certain mystique about it and is in your face all the time, it's going to get your attention. The threat begins to feel more likely. But we need to question if that anxiety is appropriate.

Bruce Lee

Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception.

Bruce Lee

Anxiety is the gap between the NOW and the THEN. So if you are in the NOW, you can't be anxious, because your excitement flows immediately into ongoing spontaneous activity.

Edmund Burke

Curiosity is the most superficial of all the affections; it changes its object perpetually; it has an appetite which is very sharp, but very easily satisfied, and it has always an appearance of giddiness, restlessness and anxiety.

Eckhart Tolle

Ultimately, there is no such thing as "my consciousness," but just the one consciousness and to sense your connectedness with the one (I can sense that continuously, which is why I can say that I know this for sure) to sense that connectedness with the one consciousness that pervades the universe, which in some traditions is called God, to sense that frees you of fear, from anxiety, and takes you to a very deep place of peace, but also of heightened aliveness.

Edward Ruscha

The subject [of Los Angeles] became a general metaphor for anxiety and the speed of modern life.

Benjamin Franklin

Covetousness is ever attended with solicitude and anxiety.

Baltasar Gracian

When desire dies, fear is born.

Dean Koontz

Thanks to the circus between my ears, I can seize upon the smallest disquieting observation and from it extrapolate a terror of cataclysmic proportions.

Jane Campion

If you read Keats's poems, they're often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tough.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Knowledge does away with darkness, [anxiety], and doubt; for these cannot exist where knowledge is.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Work is an antidote for anxiety, an ointment for sorrow, and a doorway to possibility.

Deepak Chopra

Any decrease of anxiety is a step toward love.

Charles Stanley

If you have an anxiety lay it down before The Lord

Charles Spurgeon

Growth can be painful, change can be painful but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow it only empties today of it strengths

Alan Watts

Conscious attention is a designed function of the brain which scans the environment for any trouble making changes. If you identify yourself with your trouble shooter, then naturally you define yourself as being in a perpetual state of anxiety.

David D. Burns

Practically everybody knows what its like to feel anxious, worried, nervous, afraid, uptight, or panicky. Often, anxiety is just a nuisance, but sometimes it can cripple you and prevent you from doing what you really want with your life. But I have some great news for you: You can change the way you feel.

Carl Sagan

The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it

Cary Grant

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant. Let me expand a bit. I sense that you may feel that I am free of problems. Let me assure you that I have the same anxieties and insecurities as anyone in this auditorium - maybe more.

Camille Paglia

Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating the materiality of nature's forces, and their frequent predictability.