Anxiety happens when you think you have to figure out everything all at once. Breathe. You're strong. You got this. Take it day by day. @ -Karen Salmansohn
90% of what you're stressing about right now won't even matter a year from now. Take a deep breath. @ -Mel Robbins
You are stronger than you think. You have gotten through every bad day in your life, and you are undefeated.
Don't chase, don't beg, don't stress, don't be desperate, just relax. When you relax, it will come to you. Make your wants, want you.
At the end of the day, tell yourself gently, 'I love you, you did the best you could today, and even if you didn't accomplish all you had planned, I love you anyway.'
If you're always thinking about what can go wrong, you miss out on all the things that could go right.
Don't cry over the past, it's gone. Don't stress about the future, it hasn't arrived. Live in the present and make it beautiful.
Ships don't sink because of the water around them; ships sink because of the water that gets in them. Don't let what's happening around you get inside you and weigh you down.
Overthinking is the biggest cause of unhappiness.
Keep going. It won't always be this overwhelming.
Whatever is worrying you right now, forget about it. Take a deep breath, stay positive and know that things will get better.
You don't have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you. @ -Dan Millman
Today I refuse to stress myself out over things I can't control or change.
The people in your life should be a source of reducing stress, not causing it.
One day, you will be proud you made it through this.
No amount of anxiety can change the future. No amount of regret can change the past. @ -Karen Salmansohn
Trust yourself. You've survived a lot, and you'll survive whatever is coming. @ -Robert Tew
You can't change the past and you can't predict the future, but you can ruin the present by worrying about both.
Anxiety is having to remind myself that being afraid of things going wrong isn't the way to make things go right.
You're worried about what-ifs. Well, what if you stopped worrying? @ -Shannon Celebi
You don't always have to know what to do next; just live.
Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and think of what could go right.
Nobody is worth stressing over. People come and go. Move on and go find yourself, the world is yours. Life goes on.
Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. @ -Frank Outlaw
Deep breath. You got this.
It's okay to not be okay.
You are not your thoughts, you are the one listening to them.
You cannot suffer the past or future because they do not exist. What you are suffering is your memory and your imagination. @ -Sadhguru
Repeat to yourself: I'm not going to rush anything, not going to stress out or worry about how things will work out for me.
Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it. @ -Kahlil Gibran
You're allowed to scream, you're allowed to cry, but do not give up.
I promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems. Nothing is worth diminishing your health. Nothing is worth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and fear. @ -Steve Maraboli
Every time you get upset at something, ask yourself if you were to die tomorrow, was it worth wasting your time being angry?
Remember: we don't control what happens, we control how we respond. @ -Ryan Holiday
Anxiety is practicing failure in advance. Anxiety is needless and imaginary. It's fear about fear, fear that means nothing. @ -Seth Godin
Talk about your blessings more than you talk about your problems.
Breathe deeply. You can get through this. You are stronger than you realize. Everything will be okay. You got this. @ -Karen Salmansohn
You have to get up every morning and tell yourself 'I can do this'.
I will breathe. I will think of solutions. I will not let my worry control me. I will not let my stress level break me. I will simply breathe. And it will be okay. @ -Shayne McClendon
Anxiety is the mind exaggerating what ifs, know that you can handle any situation and know that will you be okay.
A negative mind will never give you a positive life.
Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.
You will feel better again.
If you find yourself mentally exhausted: change your environment. Unclutter your desk. Take a shower. Go for a a walk. Refresh your mental state. @ -Life Math Money
You are not weak. People like us, we're brave. We're the ones who get up and face our worst fears every day. We keep fighting. @ -Jen Wilde
Worry does nothing but steal your joy and keep you very busy doing nothing.
Stress, anxiety and depression are caused when we are living to please others. @ -Paulo Coelho
Your fear of looking stupid is holding you back. @ -Shannon Luxford
Breathe. It's just a bad day, not a bad life.
If it won't matter in 5 years, don't spend more than 5 minutes getting angry about it.
You can't control everything. Sometimes you just need to relax and have faith that things will work out.
Don't get too deep, it leads to over thinking, and over thinking leads to problems that doesn't even exist in the first place. @ -Jayson Engay
Spending time thinking about what you have no control over is a waste of your time. Work on what you do have control over.
Stop repeatedly going over the issue that stresses you out, the more you do the worse it will feel.
Get it done now. The anxiety of continually thinking about a task you're not doing, and beating yourself up over it, is often more difficult (and time-consuming) than actually doing it. @ -Neil Strauss
Whatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not. @ -Ana Monnar
Think about every good thing in your life right now. Free yourself of worrying. Let go of the anxiety, breathe. Stay positive, all is well. @ -Germany Kent
You deserve to rest. Even if only for a moment. Put down the weight you're carrying. Let go of the need to keep it all together. Take off your warrior mask. For this moment, now... Just breathe. @ -Jason Garner
Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have. @ -Joyce Meyer
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded. @ -Buddha
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep. @ -Dale Carnegie
The more you talk about a problem, the longer it will be a problem.
Worrying won't stop the bad things from happening, it just stops you from enjoying the good.
Relax, you're where you're supposed to be.
Not all storms come to disrupt your life. Some come to clear your path.
It is okay to have depression, it is okay to have anxiety and it is okay to have an adjustment disorder. We need to improve the conversation. We all have mental health in the same way we all have physical health. @ -Prince Harry
To those struggling with anxiety, OCD, depression: I know it's mad annoying when people tell you to exercise, and it took me about 16 medicated years to listen. I'm glad I did. It ain't about the ass, it's about the brain. @ -Lena Dunham
Anxiety happens when you think you that have to figure everything out. @ -Karen Salmansohn
If you can't change it, let it go.
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset. @ -Saint Francis de Sales
Don't worry about what you can't control. Our focus and energy needs to be on the things we can control. Attitude, effort, focus – these are the things we can control. @ -Tim Tebow
Anxiety is the fear of more fear. @ -Thibaut
Worrying about how things might go wrong doesn't help things to go right.
Remember that stress doesn't come from what's going on in your life. It comes from your thoughts about what's going on in your life. @ -Andrew Bernstein
If the inside of your mind is filled with too much chaos, try getting lost in someone else's story through a good book or movie.  Anxiety is a temporary state of mind.
If you live in fear of the future because of what happened in your past, you will end up losing what you have in the present.
You can't force raging water to be calm. You have to leave it alone and let it return to its natural flow. Emotions are the same way. @ -Thibaut
Contemplating on what went wrong in the past will keep you in those feelings. Stop giving it your precious time, focus on what to do right now.
Don't be in such a rush to figure everything out. Embrace the unknown and let your life surprise you.
Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions. @ -Pema Chödrön
When everything feels too much, just breathe, take some time to think, to enjoy, to take care of yourself.
Times are weird. Focus on what you can control.
Don't let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries. @ -Astrid Alauda
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
Tough times will eventually fade away, please know you will outlast them.
You will get there when you are meant to get there and not one moment sooner... so relax, breathe, and be patient.
The anxiety many feel is a result of trying to live in the world their imagination created, while being forced to live in the real world. @ -Thibaut
The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it's your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can't package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking. @ -Wayne Dyer
Tomorrow is tomorrow, today is today, worry about one at a time.
Trying to please everyone is a recipe for stress, misery and frustration. Be yourself, it'll be good to know who's down with that.
Over-thinking causes unnecessary stress and worry, and tends to blow things out of proportion. @ -Melissa Eshleman
Learning to ignore things can be your greatest power. @ -Maxime Lagacé
If you got out of bed today and chose to face the world, I'm proud of you. If you're still struggling to, I'm rooting for you. @ -Upile Chisala
Knowing that you will survive no matter what happens is a good place to focus when life overwhelms you.
Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle. @ -Christian D. Larson
Keep walking through the storm. Your rainbow is waiting on the other side. @ -Heather Stillufsen
Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace. @ -Robert J. Sawyer
You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf. @ -Jon Kabat-Zinn
No matter what comes your way, no matter how difficult or unfair, you will do more than simply survive. You will thrive.
You don't gain anything from stressing. Remember that.
Anxiety is one little tree in your forest. Step back and look at the whole forest.
You're stronger than your fears, you just have to take the first step.
Sometimes it's best to sleep until you feel better.
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere. @ -Glenn Turner
Breath by breath, let go of fear, expectation, anger, regret, cravings, frustration, fatigue. Let go of the need for approval. Let go of old judgments and opinions. Die to all that, and fly free. Soar in the freedom of desirelessness. @ -Surya Das
Self-care means taking time to relax, recharge, and connect with the self and others. It also means saying no to others when overwhelmed and taking space to calm and soothe oneself.
The day she let go of the things that were weighing her down, was the day she began to shine the brightest. @ -Katrina Mayer
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
It's ok to take a break.
Ten years from now you'll laugh at whatever's stressing you out today. So why not laugh now? @ -Tony Robbins
Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create. @ -Roy T. Bennett
Depression and anxiety are a symptom of too much consumption and too little creation. You were put on this earth to create. @ -Bill Masur
In a year you'll barely remember why you felt so stressed, so why stress about it now?
In hard times, the goal is to change your response to what you can't control. To grow so strong on the inside that nothing on the outside can affect your inner wellness without your conscious permission. @ -Marcandangel
What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do. @ -Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you're afraid to do something in a social setting, it is because you are more invested in someone else's opinion of you than you are in your own opinion of yourself. @ -Luca Dellanna
If a problem is fixable, there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no benefit in worrying whatsoever. @ -14th Dalai Lama
If it hurts to think about, think about something else. Stop the pain by distraction and let your heart rest a little.
When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. @ -Wayne Dyer
Sometimes, when you're feeling stressed, all you really need is a reminder that you'll be through the tunnel soon and that light is right around the corner.
These times are hard but they will pass.
A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality and lives in a world of illusion. @ -Alan Watts
If one good thing happens amongst a hundred bad things, focus on the one good thing.
Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength – carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. @ -Corrie Ten Boom
Negative thoughts can take root in your mind and distort the severity of the situation. Try to challenge your fears, ask if they're true, and see where you can take back control.
Some days are hard and some days are gold, remind yourself of the gold days to get you through the hard days.
Be okay with not knowing for sure what might come next, but know that whatever it is, you will be okay.
When you try to control everything, you enjoy nothing. Sometimes you just need to relax, breathe, let go and live in the moment.
Depression/anxiety requires a tremendously strong person to endure its pain. You are that person. It may not feel like it, but you are. @ -The Anxiety Man
Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations. @ -Zig Ziglar
If the mind can cause stress, the mind can alleviate it. It's within our power to choose one thought over another, to choose optimism over pessimism. @ -Ernest Cadorin
Remember, if you catch yourself dwelling on negative stuff, you can always change your thoughts.
If you feel depressed, it's okay to talk about it. If you feel anxious, it's okay to talk about it. If you feel lonely, it's okay to talk about it. If you are struggling with any mental health problems, it's okay to talk about it.
It's alright to cry, it's alright to be angry, bad feelings are here for a reason and it doesn't make you bad for having them.
People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on. @ -Eckhart Tolle
Don't feel bad if everyone thinks you should be over it by now, spend time focused on healing not on what others think.
Life has many different chapters. One bad chapter doesn't mean it's the end of the book.
You are going to be alright, the problems of today can be worked through.
Relax. Let every moment be what it's going to be. What's meant to be will come your way, what's not will fade away.
Keep calm, you got this.
No matter what you're going through, you are not alone. The light is always with you. You might not see it, but you can trust it.
In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived. How well we have loved. How well we have learned to let go. @ -Jack Kornfield
Remember to breathe.
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. @ -Maya Angelou
Nobody cares about your insecurities as much as you do.
If you're having a down day, have it. Let yourself feel the emotions — but don't stay there. @ -Molly Campbell
Make choices for yourself that keep you closer to a peaceful state of mind, put distance between yourself and unsettling situations and people.
Oh yes, the past can hurt. But, you can either run from it or learn from it. @ -The Lion King
Things will get better, and you need to trust in that.
Take it day by day.
Their problems are not your problems.
At the end of the day quiet your mind knowing you can't change anything yesterday, but you can do your best tomorrow.
Whatever your situation is right now, you'll grow from it.
Pay attention to what makes you start to feel anxious, if you can't avoid it make a plan to keep your peace before encountering it again.
If you can't control what is happening; you can control your breathing and thinking. Work on focused deep breaths.
Smiles can hide so much; fear, pain, sadness, tears. But then again they reflect one thing: strength.
Feel what you need to feel then let it go. Do not let it consume you.
Deep thinking about things that don't matter is like hammering the wrong nail.
These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb. @ -Najwa Zebian
It doesn't really matter what you are afraid of. Trust yourself enough to confront it, walk through it and survive. @ -Iyanla Vanzant
Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't. @ -Steve Maraboli
Procrastination is the lazy cousin of fear. When we feel anxiety around an activity, we postpone it. @ -Noelle Hancock
You always have more blessing than problems. You just have to spend more time appreciating your invisible blessings -and not put in so much time analyzing your problems. @ -Karen Salmansohn
Take all the time you need to heal emotionally. Moving on doesn't take a day, it takes lots of little steps to be able to break free of your broken self. @ -Tere Arigo
We have a choice. We can spend our whole life suffering because we can't relax with how things really are, or we can relax and embrace the open-endedness of the human situation, which is fresh, unfixated, and unbiased. @ -Pema Chödrön
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. @ -John Lubbock
Sometimes we feel stuck and that is 100% ok.
Worrying doesn't take away tomorrow's troubles, it takes away today's peace.
In today's rush, we all think too much - seek too much - want too much - and forget about the joy of just being. @ -Eckhart Tolle
Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. @ -Eckhart Tolle
Don't worry about achieving. Don't worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can. @ -Pema Chödrön
Stress is not created by the events in your life, but by your reaction to them. @ -James Pierce
Investigate the reasons you are feeling so much pressure. Spend time with yourself deciding if it is worth your peace of mind.
Train your mind to be calm in negative situations. @ -Kalpesh Radadiya
I shall stay calm in moments of stress and anxiety, so as to allow positive thoughts and actions to manifest from me. @ -Leon Brown
Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you. @ -Joel Osteen
Tell it to your anxious thought, always worrying about the future, that "I will worry about it when that actually happens". @ -Haemin Sunim
Let go of what has passed. Let go of what may come. Let go of what is happening now. Don't try to figure anything out. Don't try to make anything happen. Relax, right now, and rest. @ -Tilopa
A person busy kicking themselves over what has happened in the past, or biting their nails over what might happen in the future, is a person who is not busy with life. @ -Ryan Holiday
When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future. When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past.
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer. @ -William S. Burroughs
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. @ -Lee Brown
Stop being tormented by everyone else's reaction to you. @ -Joyce Meyer
Be mindful of your thoughts. They will become your reality.
Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it. @ -Dorothy M. Neddermeyer
You're going to go through tough times, but you can always grow from it. See the positive in negative events.
You need to be able to manage stress because hard times will come, and a positive outlook is what gets you through. @ -Marie Osmond
If you can solve the problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying? 
For every negative thought there's always a positive one to replace it.
The more anger you hold in your heart towards the past, the less capable you are of loving the present.
Every single worry or fear you have will be meaningless down the road. Every. Single. One. @ -Kamal Ravikant
The world tricks you into thinking it has priorities more important than your time and energy. Stand up for yourself and take your power back.
Stop worrying and start enjoying your time.
Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the trip. @ -Babs Hoffman
Peace. It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.
One of the best ways to reduce stress is to accept the things that you cannot control. @ -M. P. Neary
Relax, recharge and reflect. Sometimes it's OK to do nothing. @ -Izey Victoria Odiase
It's not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it. @ -Hans Selye
Slow down. Calm down. Don't worry. Don't hurry. Trust the process. @ -Alexandra Stoddard
Worry less, smile more.
Try not to take life so seriously that it becomes all routines and duties, let some fun and light heartedness have space in your day.
I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health. @ -Voltaire
The river becomes calm when it reaches the ocean. Find your ocean each day. @ -Maxime Lagacé
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. @ -Dale Carnegie
Learn to master your emotions.
Living with anxiety, turning up, and doing stuff with anxiety takes a strength most people will never know. @ -Matt Haig
Anxiety may always be a part of your life, but it shouldn't overtake your day-to-day.
When was the last time worry ever solved a problem? Breathe and know that you are perfect in this moment.
It's okay to feel unstable. It's okay to disassociate. It's okay to hide from the world. It's okay to need help. It's okay not to be okay. Your mental illness is not a personal failure.
Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry – all forms of fear – are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. @ -Eckhart Tolle
Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it. @ -Hans Selye
Breathe. Slow down.
It's okay to not be okay – it means that your mind is trying to heal itself. @ -Abhijit Naskar
Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence. @ -Alan Watts
You have grown from your past. You will grow from your present.
Now is the best time to do whatever it is that is causing you anxiety.
You have to take control of your mind, harness anxiety by demanding your mind be still. Sounds odd, but you are the master of your mind.
So little of what could happen does happen. @ -Salvador Dalí
Sorrow looks back. Worry looks around. Faith looks up. @ -Ralph Waldo Emerson
I've spent most of my life and most of my friendships holding my breath and hoping that when people get close enough they won't leave, and fearing that it's a matter of time before they figure me out and go. @ -Shauna Niequist
Let things come and go. Stay calm, don't let anything disturb your peace, and carry on. @ -Germany Kent
We often learn too late that we spent too much time worrying about the things that mattered least.
Ask yourself if what you are doing has any benefit, if not let it go.
Start to spend time with yourself, complete stillness can heal a tired soul.
Count your blessings, not your problems.
No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen. @ -Alan Watts
Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass. It's about learning how to dance in the rain. @ -Vivian Greene
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. @ -Buddha
When you are faced with an obstacle, remember to breathe. Always, one breath at a time.
If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen tomorrow, we have no today in which to live. @ -Thomas Sowell
Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges.  So relax. @ -Bryant H. McGill
Don't let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks. @ -Dr Roopleen
A mind which constantly seeks security and certainty; is a very miserable mind. @ -D. Muthukrishnan
When you confront the monster you fear the most, you'll defeat your fears. @ -David D. Burns
You need to build an inner kingdom before you can defend yourself from the mental stressors around you. Spend time in quiet contemplation so you know what your center feels like.
If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief. @ -Brené Brown
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. @ -Epictetus
Worry pretends to be necessary, but serves no useful purpose. @ -Eckhart Tolle
When you notice negative things in your environment shift your attention to a positive point, it takes practice but will enhance your wellbeing.
Take a deep breath and blow away any nagging past thing you can't change. Exhale out the regret and think about what you are going to do right.
Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday. @ -Ann Brashares
Don't hurry. Don't worry. Do your best and let it rest.
You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway. @ -Steve Maraboli
Feelings are just visitors; let them come and go. @ -Mooji
Things sometimes get worse before they get better.
It's not stress that kills us, it's our reaction to it. @ -Hans Selye
Fill up your dark days with any little comfort you can find, keep reaching for the next better feeling thought to find your way out of the darkness.
You need to look after yourself too. If you need to rest, rest. If you need time alone, recharge yourself.
When we're anxious, disconnected, vulnerable, alone, and feeling helpless, the booze and food and work and endless hours online feel like comfort, but in reality they're only casting their long shadows over our lives. @ -Brené Brown
If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret. @ -Jim Carrey
Your mental health is important. Take care of yourself.
Water breaks a rock by eroding it over time. Whatever you are up against keep pushing a little each day and eventually you will get what you are after.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. @ -Henry Ward Beecher
A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you. @ -Joyce Meyer
To stay inside your head just feeds sorrow, shrink it by seeking laughter and joy.
Stop trying to avoid the negative, focus on overcoming it.
When you're feeling anxious, remember that you're still you. You are not your anxiety. @ -Deanne Repich
Anxiety and fear are cousins but not twins. Fear sees a threat. Anxiety imagines one. @ -Max Lucado
Your beliefs become your thoughts, your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, your values become your destiny. @ -Mahatma Gandhi
Your life will be in order when disorder ceases to bother you. @ -James Pierce
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. @ -Matthew 6:34
Difficult events occur for our spiritual growth. These aren't meant to be punishment. Beautiful sunset awaits after heavy rain. @ -Haemin Sunim
When was the last time you sat quietly with yourself? 
Going through anxiety or depression or any other psychological condition doesn't make you unlovable – it makes you human. @ -Seth J. Gillihan
Focus on staying calm. Remember that depression is treatable and the feelings will not last forever.
A warrior accepts that we can never know what will happen to us next. @ -Pema Chödrön
Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid. @ -William Faulkner
Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. Do not be disheartened by your imperfections, but always rise up with fresh courage. @ -Saint Francis de Sales
Sit outside, read a book, take a walk... Anything to clear your mind.
Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. @ -Natalie Goldberg
Don't believe every worried thought you have. Worried thoughts are notoriously inaccurate. @ -Renee Jain
If it makes you nervous, you're doing right.
Our epidemics of depression, anxiety and addiction are signals. They are telling us something is going terribly wrong with how we live. @ -Johann Hari
By thinking about your goals every morning, many times during the day, and every night, you begin moving toward it and bringing it toward you. @ -Bob Proctor
Don’t feel bad for feeling.
Let's not spoil good weather by worrying about the storm.
You have permission to stop thinking about sad things all the time, you have permission to dream as wild and far as your imagination can take you.
Overthinking will not empower you over things that are beyond your control. So, let it be if it is meant to be and cherish the moment. @ -Mahsati A
Stress is a choice. So is inner peace. @ -Lewis Howes
The devil cries when you don't worry.
Purposely feeling sunshine on your face, can calm your racing mind.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. @ -Carl Jung
Your mind will run you ragged with thousands of thoughts, practice directing and slowing the flow to your benefit.
You are far from the only nervous person in the room. @ -Thibaut
Take time to breathe, to calm down.
The first step: Don't be anxious. Nature controls it all. @ -Marcus Aurelius
So much of our time is spent worrying about the opinions of people that don't ultimately matter to us. @ -Shane Parrish
People think it would be nice to have peace of mind, to be serene, to be calm, to be undisturbed by this, that, and the other. But as long as you make all those things objects of desire, you have defined yourself as lacking them. @ -Alan Watts
Fear is the brain's way of saying that there is something important for you to overcome.
It's ok to worry – it means you care.
Each moment of worry, anxiety or stress represents lack of faith in miracles, for they never cease. @ -T.F. Hodge
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. @ -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes we can focus so much on nothing that we make it a big something of nothing @ -Ricky Maye
The problem is that worrying doesn't actually solve anything. @ -Celestine Chua
You can fall as much you like, but you must get back up.
Relax, breathe, and be patient.
If you absolutely can't stay positive, don't go negative, just cruise neutral for a while until you can get back up. @ -Terri Guillemets
Be cheerful - the problems that worry us most are those that never arrive. @ -Benjamin Franklin
Feel your pain so you can get past it, do not bury it or it will try to creep into every moment of your life.
It's time to slow down and allow your body and mind to rest.
Gratitude can reduce your stress and anxiety. @ -Bree Miller
Stress is a confused state. It believes that everything is an emergency. @ -Natalie Goldberg
The universe doesn't allow perfection. @ -Stephen Hawking
Breath more. Worry less.
Things will happen in life that you can't stop. But, that's no reason to shut out the world. @ -Pete Sims
Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment. @ -Dale Carnegie
Don't hope for a life without problems. There's no such thing. Instead, hope for a life full of good problems. @ -Mark Manson
Beneath anger, there are hurt feelings. @ -Yong Kang Chan
Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is relax. @ -Mark Black
The anxiety of worry is almost always worse than the actual consequences. Stop worrying and start doing. @ -James Clear
I am too calm to be claimed by your chaos. @ -Nitya Prakash
Feelings are much like waves, we can't stop them from coming, but we can choose which ones to surf. @ -Jonatan Mårtensson
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. @ -Leo F. Buscaglia
Forget trying to control the people and events around you, focus on controlling what is in your hands.
To calm your anxious mind, fear not and love yourself without judgment. @ -Debasish Mridha
Do not worry if you are making waves simply by being yourself. The moon does it all the time. @ -Scott Stabile
Being mentally strong doesn't mean you won't feel afraid. Instead, mental strength is about feeling afraid and doing it anyway. @ -Amy Morin
Relaxation comes from letting go of tense thoughts. @ -Frances Wilshire
Work out to release the stress.
Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. @ -Christian D. Larson
When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears. @ -Tony Robbins
There's just so much going on in my mind, sometimes I can't keep up with what's going on around me. @ -Amanda Jade Briskar
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. @ -Marcus Aurelius
With my desire to improve everything, I destroy the moment. @ -Naval Ravikant
The minute anyone's getting anxious I say, 'You must eat and you must sleep.' They're the two vital elements for a healthy life. @ -Francesca Annis
Thoughts that are powered by fear will cause feelings of anxiety, anger or frustration, which will manifest into your life and create negative or bad experiences. @ -Joe Hinchliffe
Take a deep breath and focus on what's really important. @ -Wayne Dyer
The thoughts in your mind affect your outer world, think your best feeling thoughts as much as you can.
It's perfectly acceptable to go away to be by yourself to calm down, sometimes it's the best action to take.
You will outlast your problems.
Living in the moment means letting go of the past and not waiting for the future. It means living your life consciously, aware that each moment you breathe is a gift. @ -Oprah Winfrey
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset. @ -Saint Francis de Sales
We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction. @ -Harry Ironside
Some situations are just like bad dreams, they're only unbearable while we're giving them our full attention. @ -Curtis Tyrone Jones
I think one of the biggest things that sleep does is help with emotional stress. @ -Joe Zeller
Wanting control over every little aspect of your life will cause you to stress more than if you let life run it's course.
When you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.
What separates people is how they respond. @ -Shane Parrish
Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it. @ -Natalie du Toit
Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything. @ -Mary Hemingway
I tend to get pretty depressed and I have some issues with anxiety and things like that. For me, it's more psychological. Exercise is a means of expelling those demons. @ -Ryan Reynolds
Wherever you feel the least in control is where you have to distance your self from either physically or mentally.
Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free. @ -Thich Nhat Hanh
You can't worry yourself out of a bad situation, but you can believe yourself out of it.
Relax. Nothing is under control. @ -Adi Da
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems. @ -Epictetus
Let go of the idea that you can control others' actions. We really only have control over ourselves and how we act.
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles. @ -Charlie Chaplin
The storm before the calm. @ -Cameron Conaway
Be an island of calm in the sea of craziness. @ -The Ancient Sage
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone. @ -Alan Watts
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
We need to learn to let go as easily as we grasp and we will find our hands full and our minds empty. @ -Leo Buscaglia
He who is not every day conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. @ -Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about. @ -Emma Watson
Lose all your shields, self-defense mechanisms, and fears and make a serious conversation with yourself.
The largest part of what we call personality is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness. @ -Alain de Botton
I breathe in calmness, I breathe out stress.
If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved then worrying will do you no good. @ -Shantideva
Getting angry in a stressful situation is like trying to clean something with dirt. @ -Urbanky Aurel Petru
Life's problems are a small thing to a giant like you, and you are oh so tall.
We generate fears when we sit. We overcome them by action. @ -Dr. Henry Link
When a situation is within your control, take action. When a situation is outside your control, make preparations. @ -James Pierce
Worry is the first thief of our time and has the power to rob you of beauty of today.
Face your fears, endure its pain and they will be re-written in the form of pride and dreams. @ -Greg Plitt
The past has no power over the present moment. @ -Eckhart Tolle
I think sometimes making yourself vulnerable before you are ready is exactly what can hold you accountable. Do what you fear. @ -Brittany Burgunder
Take a moment to reflect on all of the things in your life you have already let go of.
It is not external events themselves that cause us distress, but the way in which we think about them... It is our attitudes and reactions that give us trouble. We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them. @ -Epictetus
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will. @ -W. Clement Stone
Don't worry about all of the steps. Begin. @ -Bob Goff
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. @ -Benjamin Franklin
Uncertainty worries us. Maybe that's why so many people live in the past.
Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself. @ -Hermann Hesse
Guilt and shame are just emotions, not who you are.
Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment. @ -Thich Nhat Hanh
You have the say so inside your mind, block out the bad noise and focus on deep breathing.
In the madness, you have to find calm. @ -Lupita Nyong'o
Often what feels like the end of the world is really a challenging pathway to a far better place. @ -Karen Salmansohn
All too frequently, anxiety crushes not only your spirit and your potential, but your ability to take care of your mind and body. @ -Jonathan Davidson
Think about the next step toward what's right for you and block out the noise of all the other needs.
It is possible to choose peace over worry.
Don't let pain define you, let it refine you. @ -Tim Fargo
There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life. @ -Tara Brach
We should accept our negative feelings rather than avoid or repress them. Suffering contributes to psychological growth. @ -Rollo May
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. @ -Aesop
Don't let worry stop you from doing something.
Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do. @ -Ralph Marston
To experience peace does not mean that your life is always blissful. It means that you are capable of tapping into a blissful state of mind amidst the normal chaos of a hectic life. @ -Jill Botte Taylor
There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether to let it affect you or not. @ -Valerie Bertinelli
Don't be afraid to put your mental health first.
Talking about what's causing you stress or bringing you down can help lessen the intensity of these thoughts. Give those closest to you a chance to help out.
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. @ -Lao Tzu
Learn to calm down the winds of your mind, and you will enjoy great inner peace. @ -Remez Sasson
When you fear your struggles, your struggles consume you. When you face your struggles, you overcome them.
Freedom from desire leads to inner peace. @ -Lao Tzu
True happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied, for he that is wants nothing. @ -Seneca
Thanks to the imagination, there's no end to things in this world that can trigger anxiety. @ -Ryū Murakami
Life will give you whatever experience is the most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at this moment. @ -Eckhart Tolle
You can let your fear stop you or motivate you to push through.
The ultimate purpose of inquiry is that it allows us to pause. In the space of a pause, truth can shine through. @ -Tara Brach
When the mind is calm, how quickly, how smoothly, how beautifully you will perceive everything. @ -Paramahansa Yogananda
Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it into a defense. @ -Samuel Rush Meyrick
The more you think life is about having stuff and superiority and showing it off, the more unhappy, and the more depressed and anxious, you will be. @ -Johann Hari
If you lack in one area of life then turn your focus to an area you prosper in, let go of any negative lacking thoughts and embrace abundant thoughts.
We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress. @ -Viggo Mortensen
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them – every day begin the task anew. @ -Frances de Sales
To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another. @ -Katherine Paterson
If you're nervous, that means you care and you want to give your best. @ -Adriana Lima
You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile. @ -Charlie Chaplin
Relax. You'll live longer and perform better. @ -Naval Ravikant
Don't sit and heap all your problems on yourself, it won't do any good. Instead contemplate anything that makes you feel good even if it's a daydream.
The one who had the power to calm the elements of the earth has power to calm our souls. @ -Elder Robert D. Hales
It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase. @ -David Foster Wallace
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. @ -Henry Ford
You are anxious because you are identified – lost in the current experience. When you are aware of yourself and the situation in the moment, there is no fear. Your social awkwardness, shyness and defensiveness will disappear when you become an unidentified, objective observer. @ -The Ancient Sage
Cultivating a close, warm-hearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It helps remove whatever fears or insecurities we may have and gives us the strength to cope with any obstacles we encounter. It is the ultimate source of success in life. @ -14th Dalai Lama
Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are weeds that strangle confidence. @ -Bruce Lee
At one point today, move slowly. Listen to the birds chirping, eat your food mindfully, take a deep breath when tension arises. Then tomorrow, move slowly at two points in the day. And three the next day. And four the day after that. Eventually, your day will be lived mindfully.
You must shake off your worries and pick up hope that you will make it through. @ -Jasmine Upwork
Stress and distractions have a mutually reinforcing relationship. They can drive one insane. Slow down, take a deep breath and relax. Pay attention to only one thing at a time. Also, don't forget to clear mental junk every now and then by meditating for a few minutes. @ -The Ancient Sage
Take a shower, wash off the day. Drink a glass of water. Make the room dark. Lie down and close your eyes. Notice the silence. Notice your heart. Still beating. Still fighting. You made it, after all. You made it, another day. And you can make it one more. You're doing just fine. @ -Charlotte Eriksson
Having anxiety and depression is like being scared and tired at the same time. It's the fear of failure, but no urge to be productive. It's wanting friends, but hate socializing. It's wanting to be alone, but not wanting to be lonely. It's feeling everything at once then feeling paralyzingly numb.
You only have control over what you choose to do with exactly what you have in this very moment. @ -Jasmine Upwork
Take a moment to recognize your breaths. Sometimes we simply forget that we are alive and breathing. @ -Jasmine Upwork
Life is made of fear. Some people eat fear soup three times a day. Some people eat fear soup all the meals there are. I eat it sometimes. When they bring me fear soup to eat, I try not to eat it, I try to send it back. But sometimes I'm too afraid to and have to eat it anyway. @ -Martin Amis
How we perceive a situation and how we react to it is the basis of our stress. If you focus on the negative in any situation, you can expect high stress levels. However, if you try and see the good in the situation, your stress levels will greatly diminish. @ -Catherine Pulsifer
Breathe deeply and enjoy the breaths you take. @ -Jasmine Upwork
Time is a great oppressor. It smothers our spirit. Once you're free of the pressure of time you can operate in a state of flow where you move intuitively without being disrupted by a tight schedule. This is the fluid, creative state where you're at ease and function at your peak.
Plants need to be buried to grow. You're just going through a planting phase, waiting to grow. @ -Jasmine Upwork
Whatever you let constantly occupy your mind, can eventually become a part of your reality. So think positive!  @ -Jasmine Upwork
There is a beautiful life waiting for you on the other side of your fears. @ -Jasmine Upwork
Everything is fleeting. Why care? Why become emotional about something which is temporary, which you'll soon forget? Just sit back and observe the transience of everything. You'll see how you waste your energy on trifles. Most things are just not worth fretting about. @ -The Ancient Sage
If you can change your focus, you can change your future. Don't spend a minute worrying about something that you can't control. If something can't be changed by you taking direct action, put it out of your mind. Today's society is overrun with useless distractions. @ -Jim O'Shaughnessy
When you are feeling down, never fake it. Let it go and let it flow. @ -Jasmine Upwork
Compassion enhances our self-confidence because a calm mind allows our marvellous human intelligence to bloom. When we're angry, our thinking is distorted and we don't see the different aspects of reality. A calm mind enables us to take a broader, more realistic view. @ -14th Dalai Lama
Observe a stressful thought. Notice how your shoulders tense, your stomach tightens, you hold your breath. Keep watching that same thought. Don't push it away, instead change your reaction to it. Breathe deeply, let go, relax your body. You're okay. It's just a thought. Breathe. @ -Jason Garner
Stress is just a part of life, and it's something that every person has to deal with at one point or another. But that doesn't make it any easier! Stress can feel overwhelming and when you're dealing with it, it can be hard to see a light at the end of the tunnel.
Some of us are luckier than others. Some are tough and some are weak. Some are rich and some poor. But no one's superman – in that way, we're all weak. If we own things, we're terrified we'll lose them; if we've got nothing we worry it'll be that way forever. We're all the same. @ -Haruki Murakami
Ignorance is the cause of fear. @ -Seneca
Fear exists only in your mind, not in nature. Detach yourself, be strong, trust life, become life. @ -Maxime Lagacé
There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid. @ -Mahatma Gandhi
We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us. @ -Pema Chödrön
Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be. @ -Alan Watts
Don't worry about catching up with breaking news—it's already broken.
You should never get nervous about anything. What today seems important tomorrow isn't so any more. @ -Tito Vilanova
She was terrified of everything, and terrified to show it. @ -David Foster Wallace
You can't always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside. @ -Wayne Dyer
Nervousness always provokes mistakes, and mistakes lead to easy convictions. @ -S.R. Ford
There is nothing outside of yourself, look within. Everything you want is there – you are "that". @ -Rumi
Working without distraction for the first part of your day accomplishes more than an entire interrupted sloppy day.
What starts out as an intrusive thought can turn into an overwhelming concept if we "feed" it with more negative thinking. @ -Eddie Capparucci
There is nothing more powerful than releasing the need to control and relying on a power greater than you to restore your thoughts and energy. @ -Gabby Bernstein
The rain will pass, the clouds will pull back, the floods will recede, so will the bad days.
The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it. @ -Alan Moore
What's happening on the outside doesn't have the power to affect what's happening on the inside, unless we allow it to.
Life is not even close to being as logically consistent as our worries; it has many more unexpected ideas and many more facts than we do. @ -Rainer Maria Rilke
If anyone is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault… Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility except our own opinion. @ -Epictetus
Perhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments — an inability to accept life as ongoing. @ -Sarah Manguso
Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides. @ -Friedrich Nietzsche
Don't let yourself get comfortable in your misery.
It is always possible to practice releasing the tension in yourself. @ -Thich Nhat Hanh
Disease can be a physical presentation of turmoil inside you, take time to get inside your own mind.
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. @ -Michel de Montaigne
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. @ -Thich Nhat Hanh
Take control of your reactions by meditating daily, focusing your inner control vastly improves your ability to stay calm in all kinds of situations.
Just as anxiety can feed on itself, so can courage. @ -John J. Ratey
Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person. @ -Seth Godin
The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday. @ -Steve Maraboli
Amateurs are scared – scared to be vulnerable and honest with themselves. Professionals feel like they are capable of handling almost anything. @ -Shane Parrish
What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking it is painful, and that when we imagine we have found it, we don't like it. @ -Alan Watts
Cleaning and organizing your personal space is a great way to take the edge off your anxiety, as long as you don't take it too far. @ -Jessica Moore
Your inward conflicts express themselves in outward disasters. @ -Jiddu Krishnamurti
You can only do one thing at any time - dream, plan or worry. Kinda makes worry a silly third choice.
But life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future. @ -Seneca
He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear. @ -Michel de Montaigne
Evaluate the value of what you devote your thinking to, is it meaningful? Is it helpful? 
A small moment spent in quiet reflection goes a long way toward an all-day feeling of peace.
The beauty we long for is already here. @ -Tara Brach
Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action. @ -Walter Anderson
After a storm comes a calm.
Stress exists only in your mind. Peace exists only in the acceptance of the present moment. @ -Maxime Lagacé
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it. @ -Ovid
Take a five-minute break to daydream about anything pleasant and then return to your day.
What upsets people is not things themselves, but their judgements about these things. @ -Epictetus
Don't worry about being worried. You're heading out on an adventure and you can always change your mind along the way and try something else. @ -Tracy Kidder
Our wounds need nurturing care in order to heal. If we are to nurture and heal, we must admit that the wounds exist. @ -Iyanla Vanzant
Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die. @ -Douglas MacArthur
You are rich if you can take your time.
The best way to diffuse stress overload is to find something to laugh about, lighten up.
The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous. @ -Lin Yutang
The level to which we protect ourselves from being vulnerable is a measure of our fear and disconnection. @ -Brené Brown
This runaway thinking is just a recipe for anxiety, which is always causing me to try and live forward into the next, into the next, into the next. It's keeping me moving, moving, moving, and not happy, and not peaceful, and not present. @ -Naval Ravikant
Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it – just as we have learned to live with storms. @ -Paulo Coelho
Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts or happenings. It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one's head. @ -Mark Twain
You have a treasure within you that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer. @ -Eckhart Tolle
Feel your way into a calming frame of mind by using soothing thoughts to quiet yourself.
You may have a Rolls-Royce, a big house, a lovely garden, a title, a degree, but inwardly life is an everlasting battle. @ -Jiddu Krishnamurti
Calmness is the cradle of power. @ -Josiah Gilbert Holland
Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all. @ -Thomas Carlyle
Living a life somewhere else in your mind is nothing more than being a prisoner where you are. @ -Shannon L. Alder
By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before. @ -Edwin Elliott
Thought is responsible for fear. Thought is responsible for pleasure. @ -Jiddu Krishnamurti
You are what existence wants you to be. Just relax. @ -Osho
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. @ -Mark Twain
Gratitude is a powerful emotion to use for manifesting because normally we feel gratitude after we receive something. So the emotional signature of gratitude means it has already happened. @ -Joe Dispenza
Fears are nothing more than a state of mind. @ -Napoleon Hill
Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths. @ -Etty Hillesum
Sit with the pain until it passes, and you will be calmer for the next one. @ -Naval Ravikant
The more happily and joyously and the more relaxed and without worry a person can take his meal, the more his food starts becoming the right food. @ -Osho
We crave for things which create the illusion of security and comfort but which bring us only conflict, confusion and antagonism. @ -Jiddu Krishnamurti
Don't waste the rest of your time here worrying about other people – unless it affects the common good. It will keep you from doing anything useful. @ -Marcus Aurelius
Chasing after the things one yearns for is inferior to chasing after the source of the yearning. @ -Wu Hsin
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. @ -Willa Cather
To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal. @ -Boyd K. Packer
Meditation provides a way of learning how to let go. As we sit, the self we've been trying to construct and make into a nice, neat package continues to unravel. @ -John Welwood
You are the biggest enemy of your own sleep. @ -Pawan Mishra
Hope is a kind of opium; it keeps you intoxicated. To tolerate the miserable present, your eyes remain fixed on a faraway star: your hope. @ -Osho
Being nervous is not something you should be ashamed of. Nervous means you care, you really want to do well. @ -Paula Creamer
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. @ -Helen Keller
There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable. @ -Christian Nestell Bovee
Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate. @ -Soren Kierkegaard
Lay hold of today's task, and you will not need to depend so much upon tomorrow's. @ -Seneca
Anxiety is the human condition. It's probably the single most pervasive emotion. @ -Naval Ravikant
Life is not a tension anywhere except in the minds of humanity. @ -Osho
Relax; the world's not watching that closely. It's too busy contemplating itself in the mirror. @ -Richelle E. Goodrich
We need, above all things, to slow down and get ourselves to amble through life instead of to rush through it. @ -Alan Watts
Don't make things too complicated. Try to relax, enjoy every moment, get used to everything. @ -Angelique Kerber
Lean into (not away from) what's making you uncomfortable. @ -Shane Parrish
Find an image of peace far away from what makes you feel bad. Distract yourself in order to give yourself a chance to move forward.
Pause. Take a deep breath. You can't take it back after you say it, so make sure it's not something you'll later regret.
Humans aren't evolved to worry about everything happening outside of their immediate environment. @ -Naval Ravikant
Status and class and social anxiety and perhaps social code are all released when you look at paintings of powerful individuals from the past. @ -Kehinde Wiley
Be willing to release those things stored in your heart and mind that are causing you discomfort. @ -Iyanla Vanzant
There will be calmness, tranquillity when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed. @ -Bruce Lee
Eat well and sleep well. That will feed your nervous system and your psyche. As you get older, you look how you feel. @ -Francesca Annis
Cultivate calm and stillness: let go of anxiety as a lifestyle. @ -Brené Brown
That's the beauty of life, the uncertainty that we experience, literally, as we go about our day-to-day activities. We're not certain of anything, so fear comes up very often. Fear comes naturally. @ -Denzel Whitaker
If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change. @ -John A. Simone Sr
For fast acting relief, try slowing down. @ -Lily Tomlin
In capitalist societies, consumption is misperceived as the highest form of relaxation. @ -Thibaut
We try to stress the little things because little things lead to big things. @ -Steve Alford
Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering. @ -Winnie the Pooh
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. @ -William James
Human desire tends to be insatiable. @ -Alan Watts
In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagined past. @ -Alan Moore
Calm down and cheer up - You're equipped to handle it. @ -Joyce Meyer
The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder. @ -Augustine of Hippo
More patience, more presence, less anxiety. @ -Naval Ravikant
The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence. @ -Norman Vincent Peale
When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. @ -Fred Rogers
Everyone is afraid – even those who frighten us. @ -Alain de Botton
Today, you can decide to walk in freedom. You can choose to walk differently. You can walk as a free person, enjoying every step. @ -Thich Nhat Hanh
At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety. @ -Nigella Lawson
What we fear we also desire, and what we desire we fear. @ -Erica Jong
Disappointment is an ominous cloud of self-doubt and fear which must be broken through at all costs.
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. @ -Ralph Marston
The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories. @ -Alan Watts
If you feel everything is out of your control, focus your mind on one good feeling thought and hold your focus, bring it back as much you need. The whirlwind will ease up if you keep focusing.
Live in the present, forget the past and don’t worry about the future.
Embrace stress, don't avoid it. @ -Shane Parrish
Never underestimate your power of will to change the energy in a room to calmness, focus on the most calming thought you can muster.
Take some time every day to be mindful and appreciate the present moment. This may mean noticing the warmth of sunlight on the skin when walking to work, or the taste and texture of a crisp, sweet apple at lunchtime.
We need only pause, breathe, and open to the experience of aliveness within us. @ -Tara Brach
Trying to be a perfectionist brings increased stress and hinders performance. @ -T. Whitmore
Do not allow the energy of negative people to affect you.
We are terrified by the idea of being terrified. @ -Friedrich Nietzsche
Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started. @ -David Allen
A calm mind makes us relaxed, improves our health and makes for happier families and communities. @ -14th Dalai Lama
Just when you feel you have no time to relax, know that this is the moment you most need to make time to relax. @ -Matt Haig
Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money. @ -Johnny Cash
All the suffering, stress and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for. @ -Jon Kabat-Zinn
The time to relax is when you don't have time for it. @ -Sydney J. Harris
Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety; after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly. @ -Ali Ibn Abi Talib
As long as you aren't hurting yourself or anyone else, you're doing exactly what you were meant to in this big beautiful world.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. @ -Soren Kierkegaard
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. @ -Robert Frost
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself. @ -Michel de Montaigne
When you understand something, then it naturally calms you down. @ -Naval Ravikant
Anxiety is the fat of the mind. Meditation is the gym. @ -Giovanni Dienstmann
We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life. @ -Michel de Montaigne
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn. @ -Seneca
Stress is something that is sort of out of your control. You get stressed out over looking at the finish line. Stress is something that is an outside thing. Stress is an anxiety. @ -Joe Torre
Worry is a prayer to chaos. @ -Gabby Bernstein
Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor. @ -Thich Nhat Hanh
A rational person can find peace by cultivating indifference to things outside of their control. @ -Naval Ravikant
The faster and busier things get, the more we need to build thinking time into our schedule. And the noisier things get, the more we need to build quiet reflection spaces in which we can truly focus. @ -Greg McKeown
Nothing can disturb the calm peace of my soul. @ -Jiddu Krishnamurti
Only spend time trying to change things you can control, let go of the rest of your worry.
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning. @ -Winston Churchill
Worry is a prayer for chaos. @ -Gabby Bernstein
You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do. @ -Olin Miller
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
Developing an inner refuge where we feel loved and safe enables us to reduce the intensity of traumatic fear when it arises. @ -Tara Brach
Amidst all the busyness you need time away from all the pressure to regroup and recharge so you can be more effective. Nonstop worrying burns people out.
If you relax, it comes. If you relax, it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it. @ -Osho
The biggest cost of the attempt to thrive, is the worry. You even worry about the worrying. @ -Naval Ravikant
There are two kinds of future concern: desire and fear. They together create a perfect hell. @ -The Ancient Sage
All this hurrying from place to place won't bring you any relief, for you're travelling in the company of your own emotions, followed by your troubles all the way. @ -Seneca
There's this "nexting" thing, right? Where you're sitting in one spot and you're thinking about where you should be next. […] It's always the next thing, the next thing, the next thing, the next thing. That's creating this pervasive anxiety. @ -Naval Ravikant
The life of folly is empty of gratitude, full of anxiety: it is focused wholly on the future. @ -Seneca
If you don't make order before you go to sleep, the brain tries to do it when you are asleep. @ -Jiddu Krishnamurti
When your inner commentary finally ends, your happiness can finally begin. @ -Brian Thompson
Is your security blanket really an anxiety blanket? Let go of habits that aren't holding you back.
Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play. @ -Sherman Alexie
If you have a breathing room, you have a sanctuary, a place where you can return to yourself and restore your sense of peace. @ -Thich Nhat Hanh
Reduce the speed and intensity to reduce stress. A flower blooms slowly, in calmness, and in serenity. @ -Debasish Mridha
Meditation in whatever form that serves you, can give you a powerful sense of peaceful control of your emotions.
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. @ -Charlotte Brontë
Anxiety contaminates the present with the pains of all imaginable futures. We cannot experience the fullness of the moment if we are forever suffering from hypothetical hardships. @ -The Stoic Emperor
If you want to fly on the sky, you need to leave the earth. If you want to move forward, you need to let go the past that drags you down. @ -Amit Ray
To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self… And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self. @ -Soren Kierkegaard
What I do to combat anxiety is I don't try and fight it, but I just notice that I'm being anxious because of all these thoughts. @ -Naval Ravikant
Worry less and strive to reduce your fears. Years from now, you'll shake your head at the way minor matters used to trouble you. @ -Thibaut
Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff. @ -Robert Eliot
Why is thought thinking about tomorrow, about which it knows nothing? It wants certainty but there may be no certainty. @ -Jiddu Krishnamurti
Persistent, non-specific anxiety is the result of wanting so much, talking so much, and doing so much that you lose touch with the quiet joys of solitude. @ -Naval Ravikant
Some time in your day today, try to turn off all the noises you can around you, and give yourself some 'quiet time.' In the silence, let yourself think about something. Or if possible, think about nothing. @ -Fred Rogers
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them. @ -George Bernard Shaw
When you feel afraid or nervous to do a thing then do it because the real harm which you may thus receive is less poignant than its expectation and fear. @ -Ali bin Abu-Talib
A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous. @ -Alexander Hamilton
Often the moment when we most need to pause is exactly when it feels most intolerable to do so. @ -Tara Brach
Your strength is in your calmness, in the clarity of your mind. Strength comes from putting the negative aside without reacting. Win in calmness, in consciousness, in balance. @ -Yogi Amrit Desai
Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully. It's a reminder to stop talking; watch and listen. @ -Pema Chödrön
When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life. It means fear is no longer a dominant factor in what you do and no longer prevents you from taking action to initiate change. @ -Eckhart Tolle
Every moment is a fresh beginning. @ -T.S. Eliot
Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world. @ -Wayne Dyer
Being nervous isn't bad. It just means something important is happening. @ -Michael Jordan
Unresolved thoughts, prematurely pushed out of the mind, pile up in an internal landfill – which eventually pokes out of the subconscious and manifests as chronic, nonspecific anxiety. @ -Naval Ravikant
Cultivate play and rest: let go of exhaustion as a status symbol and productivity as self-worth. @ -Brené Brown
Prosperity is ever providing itself with anxieties. @ -Publilius Syrus
Do what you can, with what you've got, where you are. @ -Theodore Roosevelt
During the night we must wait for the light. @ -Frances de Sales
I try to practice mindfulness at all times, including the times where I'm nervous and I'm stressed. @ -Christen Press
Pressure can help motivate you, be sure it is healthy pressure and not soul draining oppressiveness.
You can control so much of your state of mind just by breathing. @ -Justin Kan
Present fears are less than horrible imaginings. @ -William Shakespeare
When the world is panicking around you, focus on the joy you have in the moment.
Keep the people that constantly worry at a distance, you cannot let others take your momentum.
Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence. @ -Angela Carter
Worry leads to weariness. @ -Lailah Gifty Akita
Avoiding anxiety provoking situations causes you more anxiety.
There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea. @ -Bernard Paul Heroux
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind. @ -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
It is normal to be nervous. @ -James Galway
Spend some time in the depths of your pain for a time but eventually let yourself be distracted to let your mind rest.
You get peace of mind not by thinking about it or imagining it, but by quietening and relaxing the restless mind. @ -Remez Sasson
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. @ -Bob Newhart
Rather than relaxing and enjoying who we are and what we're doing, we are comparing ourselves with an ideal and trying to make up for the difference. @ -Tara Brach
We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die. @ -Joko Beck
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. @ -Ralph Marston
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
Giving myself time, care, and attention in the morning has been crucial to significantly reducing my stress levels and consistently increasing my capacity to perform, have clarity, and take action. @ -Aiste Gazdar
If you're nervous, don't be. Because when it's done and it already happened you won't be nervous anymore.
Relax. Nothing's missing.
Stress can actually help you focus better and can be positive. Having small amounts of stress can stimulate you to think. Being able to manage your stress is key. @ -Frank Long
Do not underestimate the calming effect of evening out your breathing, taking deep breaths and slow exhales.
All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace. @ -Rumi
Slow breathing is like an anchor in the midst of an emotional storm: the anchor won't make the storm go away, but it will hold you steady until it passes. @ -Russ Harris
If you are continually under large amounts of stress, your life is due for reevaluation. The life we are given is not meant to be all stress and anguish.
Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable. @ -Blaise Pascal
Fear is usually undefined exaggeration of what could happen, define the fear and mentally make plans to deal with the worst case in detail.  The big dark shadows become manageable obstacles.
I think one thing that does cause unhappiness is protracted anxiety and worry. @ -Derek Bok
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength. @ -Charles Spurgeon
Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. @ -Jane Wagner
The desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. @ -Alan Watts
It is nice finding that place where you can just go and relax. @ -Moises Arias
Short-term thinking makes people desperate, ungenerous, impulsive. Long-term thinking makes people calm, gracious, controlled. The mighty pyramids and cathedrals were built by civilizations with a long time horizon, so it is with the life of a great man. @ -The Stoic Emperor
This world can feel unnatural at times. The important thing is to always maintain the nature of who you are.
Times of stress are also times that are signals for growth, and if we use adversity properly, we can grow through adversity. @ -Abraham Twerski
I'm scared of any fighter I've ever fought because they are some dangerous people to be dealing with. That's also where the anxiety comes from. @ -Nate Diaz
An easy change of mindset happens with practice, create an image of perfect stillness when you are happy and when you need peace use it to calm yourself.
You look to others for hope and guidance because you are empty and poor; you turn to books, pictures, teachers, gurus and saviours to inspire and strengthen you; you are ever in hunger, ever seeking but never finding. @ -Jiddu Krishnamurti
Don't forget to rest and reset.
Awareness is inherently pure like the empty sky. Stress, annoyance, and anger can temporarily occupy its space but can never pollute it. @ -Haemin Sunim
God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't. @ -Alfred Korzybski
An ignorant state, stress is. @ -Yoda
More often than not, the thing we fear is less than half the size of the fear it creates. @ -Craig D. Lounsbrough
Nervous people tend to overreact. @ -Toba Beta
The person who trusts can relax into existence. The person who cannot trust remains tense, remains anxious, afraid. @ -Osho
Thought, thinking about past pain, projects future pain and therefore is afraid of the future. @ -Jiddu Krishnamurti
Stepping out of the busyness is perhaps the most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit. @ -Tara Brach
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. @ -Swedish Proverb
I never worry about what I did the day before. @ -Dwight D. Eisenhower
Worrying never did anyone any good.
The wretched reflect either too much or too little. @ -Publilius Syrus
Excitement and emotion arise when something is not understood. As it is understood, one naturally becomes unfazed. One naturally becomes equanimous. @ -Kapil Gupta
There is nothing that the busy man is less busy with than living; there is nothing harder to learn. @ -Seneca
Using order to deal with the disorderly, using calm to deal with the clamorous, is mastering the heart. @ -Sun Tzu
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. @ -William Shakespeare
The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all. @ -Mignon McLaughlin
The mind freed from passions is an impenetrable fortress – a person has no more secure place of refuge for all time. @ -Marcus Aurelius
Today I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions , not outside. @ -Marcus Aurelius
Meditate, relax and just be for a moment. Remember that this moment is perfect the way it is and you don't need to change it. @ -Maxime Lagacé
Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams. @ -Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath. @ -Amit Ray
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. @ -Voltaire
Gratitude is an antidote to negative emotions, a neutralizer of envy, hostility, worry, and irritation. It is savoring; it is not taking things for granted; it is present-oriented. @ -Sonja Lyubomirsky
The truly patient man neither complains of his hard lot nor desires to be pitied by others. He speaks of his sufferings in a natural, true, and sincere way, without murmuring, complaining, or exaggerating them. @ -Frances de Sales
Worrying is a misuse of your imagination. @ -Dan Mace
The existence loves you, otherwise you would not be here. Relax into your being, you are cherished by the whole. @ -Osho
What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with. @ -Haruki Murakami
He who hurries through life hurries to his grave.  @ -George R.R. Martin
I have social anxiety. It's easier up on stage because there's security in being there. When I'm off stage I'm trying not to be a manic freak. I'm quite shy. @ -Sia Furler
Exhaustion is the drug of choice for conscientious anxious people. @ -The Stoic Emperor
Create more. Consume less. @ -Maxime Lagacé
At times, the fearless suffer. Those who live with fear, suffer always.
Remember one thing: except for silence, everything else is your imagination – howsoever beautiful. @ -Osho
Our natural state is calm and alert, let go of the worry to allow the good feeling thoughts to surface.
Use your time, energy and talents to do the best you can right now. Spend no time wishing it were better. @ -Iyanla Vanzant
The more prepared I am, the more I'll be in control, less nervous, less stressed and more focused. @ -Marilu Henner
Cultivate intuition and trust faith: let go of the need for certainty. @ -Brené Brown
Sometimes when you're just thrown into something, you are more ready for it than when you have time to think it over and get nervous about it.
When you do not get to the root of the problem, you cannot solve it in any meaningful manner. @ -Robert Greene
One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious. @ -Alan Watts
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy. @ -William James
Savor the moment. Most people fear the future. Sometimes you see yourself worrying about what will happen. The best thing to do is to banish all your worries about the future. @ -John Rogers
We suffer a lot the few things we lack and we enjoy too little the many things we have. @ -William Shakespeare
Just slow down. Slow down your speech. Slow down your breathing. Slow down your walking. Slow down your eating. And let this slower, steadier pace perfume your mind. Just slow down. @ -Doko
The limitations you have and the negative things that you internalize are given to you by the world. The thing that empowers you—the possibilities—come from within. @ -Les Brown
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. @ -William James
Unwind, relax, and deepen into the present moment. @ -Eckhart Tolle
You only control your own actions and your own emotions. Only worry about things under your control. @ -Justin Kan
Need less, worry less. Simple = Beautiful. @ -Thibaut
Sleeping can be the best way to recharge and start again.
Desire disappears as you become more and more aware. When awareness is one hundred percent, there is no desire at all. @ -Osho
What you want is to develop a sustainable habit: a stress-free approach to reducing your stress. @ -Greg McKeown
Record moments of delight in your heart and play them back when life is dark.
As long as the mind holds on to the known it will always be frightened of the unknown. @ -Jiddu Krishnamurti
Run your brain in debug mode and realize that thinking raises anxiety and lowers happiness. @ -Naval Ravikant
Staying occupied is a socially sanctioned way of remaining distant from our pain. @ -Tara Brach
Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment. @ -Thich Nhat Hanh
A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing the anxiety. @ -Bertrand Russell
Begin by holding an image of yourself free of any attachment to the past, imagine how good it will feel.
