50 Anxiety Quotes That Will Calm You

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50 Best Anxiety Quotes

1. “Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.” – Anne Lamott

2. “My anxiety doesn’t come from thinking about the future but from wanting to control it.” – Hugh Prather

3. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” – Maya Angelou

4. “The way you tell your story to yourself matters.” – Amy Cuddy

5. “Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges.” – Bryant McGill

6. “If we wanted to change the situation, we first had to change ourselves. And to change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.” – Stephen Covey

7. “A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.” – Joyce Meyer

8. “It’s not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.” – Hans Selye

9. “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

10. “Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.” – Deepak Chopra

11. “Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

12. “You don’t have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.” – Dan Millman

13. “People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.” – George Bernard Shaw

14. “It’s not time to worry yet.” – Harper Lee

15. “If you can’t fly, run. If you can’t run, walk. If you can’t walk, crawl, but by all means, keep moving.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

16. “The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.” – William James

17. “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.” – Virginia Woolf

18. “Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.” – Natalie Goldberg

19. “I just give myself permission to suck…I find this hugely liberating.” – John Green

20. “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” – Epictetus

21. “Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.” – Charles Spurgeon

22. “How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.” – Thomas Jefferson

23. “We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.” – David Mamet

24. “Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.” – Arthur Somers Roche

25.“Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.” – Walter Anderson

26. “Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.” – Stephen Hawking

27. “Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.” – Plato

28. “You cannot always control what goes on outside, but you can always control what goes on inside.” – Wayne Dyer

29. “Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.” – William S. Burroughs

30. “Not everything that weighs you down is yours to carry.” – Anonymous

31. “Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” – Soren Kierkegaard

32. “Do what you can, with what you’ve got, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt

33. “Anxiety’s like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you very far.” – Jodi Picoult

34. “Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.” – Anonymous

35. “Surrender to what is, let go of what was, and have faith in what will be.” – Sonia Ricotti

36. “Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.” – Dalai Lama

37. “You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

38. “Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.” – William Shakespeare

39. “You have dug your soul out of the dark, you have fought to be here; do not go back to what buried you.” – Bianca Sparacino

40. “Everyone remembers the remark of the old man at the point of death, that his life had been full of troubles most of which had never happened.” – Winston Churchill

41. “Rule number one: Don’t sweat the small stuff. Rule number two: It’s all small stuff.” – Robert S. Eliot

42. “Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you because it will.” – Cheryl Strayed

43. “We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.” – Mother Teresa

44. “Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.” – Eckhart Tolle

45. “The elimination diet: Remove anger, regret, resentment, guilt, blame and worry. Then watch your health, and life, improve.” – Charles Glassman

46. “The universe doesn’t allow perfection.” – Stephen Hawking

47. “A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.” – Aesop

48. “Worry in the dark can make it even darker.” – Camron Wright

49. “Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.” – Madeleine L’Engle

50. “There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.” – Henry David Thoreau

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