Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition. -Alain de BottonNothing is permanent in this wicked world — not even our troubles. -Charlie ChaplinWorry is a prayer to chaos. -Gabby BernsteinThe universe doesn’t allow perfection. -Stephen HawkingI never worry about what I did the day before. -Dwight D. EisenhowerDo what you can, with what you’ve got, where you are. -Theodore RooseveltBe scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid. -William FaulknerAll your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace. -RumiI am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. -Mark TwainNothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. -Henry FordThe desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. -Alan WattsToday I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions – not outside. -Marcus Aurelius
It’s not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it. -Hans SelyeCultivate intuition and trust faith: let go of the need for certainty. -Brené BrownThe reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. -Robert FrostA warrior accepts that we can never know what will happen to us next. -Pema ChödrönStop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence. -Alan WattsI have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. -Erica JongNot being able to govern events, I govern myself. -Michel de MontaigneCultivate calm and stillness: let go of anxiety as a lifestyle. -Brené BrownIf you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret. -Jim CarreyHe who fears he will suffer, already suffers because he fears. -Michel de MontaigneLife is not a tension anywhere except in the minds of humanity. -OshoIt is always possible to practice releasing the tension in yourself. -Thich Nhat HanhAnxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment. -Thich Nhat HanhPresent fears are less than horrible imaginings. -William Shakespeare (Macbeth)
