#anxiety

I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#calm #day #everything #excitement #feel

Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another--which is not to say that we should never strive to overcome any of our anxieties or fulfil any of our desires, but rather to suggest that we should perhaps build into our strivings an awareness of the way our goals promise us a respite and a resolution that they cannot, by definition, deliver. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#desire #goals #hopes #life #respite

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

#worry #strength

While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#editing #editing-humor #editors #joy #neurosis

Often people that tell others they are "extremely polite" when the situation calls for tact and bluntness are not actually polite people. Instead, they hide behind the word “polite” because they have low self esteem or hidden agendas. Sadly, they impolitely confuse the hell out of everyone, send mixed signals, which then makes people question their sanity and motives.

— Shannon L. Alder

#anxiety #bluntness #fear #games #honesty

Do you remember what I forgot? ↗

— Erica Goros

#anxiety #funny-and-random #humor #inspirational-quotes #age

The vision I see in the mirror is me, who I am, supposedly, but that vision does not express the way my mind works or the way I feel inside. A realization creeps over me, the words tumbling into my head quietly like falling leaves. I. Am. Crazy. This is my new shameful truth. Something changed yesterday. A door has been opened that I can never close again. I touch my reflection, the glass smooth and cold, not really believing that the girl I see is me. ↗

— Victoria Sawyer

#depression-quotes #mental-disorders #mental-health #mental-illness #panic

Stop stressin' and be a blessin'. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#blessing #quotes-to-live-by #stress #death

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

#friendships #social-anxiety #change

There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#faith #fears #focus #perspective #suspense