Anxiety Quotes to Help Relax Your Mind and Ease Fears
Anxiety is difficult to discuss and even more difficult to live with. If you’re hoping to find a way to ease your anxiousness and decompress from the thoughts stirring around your mind, these anxiety quotes will help you find some much-needed release when you feel as if you’re spinning out of control.
According to figures by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the U.S., affecting 18.1% of the population every year. Anxiety disorders cost the U.S. more than $42 billion a year.
Empowering quotes like the ones below act like mini therapy sessions. When you read a quote and it feels good, gives you hope, or eases your worries, that quote is good for you. One mantra that can help is, “If that happens, I’ll find a way to deal with it.” Trusting that you’ll have the resources you need when you need them reduces worry and helps you enjoy today.
Here is our collection of inspirational, calm, and uplifting anxiety quotes, anxiety sayings, and anxiety proverbs to encourage you when facing it.
1. “Everything you have ever wanted, is sitting on the other side of fear.” – George Addair
3. “You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.” – Steve Maraboli
5. “Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.” – Wayne W. Dyer
6. “Anxiety’s like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you very far.”― Jodi Picoult
7. There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature. – Henry David Thoreau
8. What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow? – Thomas a Kempis
9. “If you’re going through hell keep going.” – Winston Churchill
10. “Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”– William James
11. “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
12. “How can a person deal with anxiety? You might try what one fellow did. He worried so much that he decided to hire someone to do his worrying for him. He found a man who agreed to be his hired worrier for a salary of $200,000 per year. After the man accepted the job, his first question to his boss was, “Where are you going to get $200,000 per year?” To which the man responded, “That’s your worry.” ― Max Lucado
13. Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity. – T. S. Eliot
14. “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
15. “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
16. “Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations. The best is yet to come.” – Zig Ziglar
17. “Trust yourself. You’ve survived a lot, and you’ll survive whatever is coming.” – Robert Tew
18. “Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.” — Thich Nhat Hanh
19. “Nothing is permanent in this wicked world — not even our troubles.” — Charlie Chaplin
20. “People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.” — George Bernard Shaw
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