We have collected some stress and anxiety quotes that will help you to get through a bad day and feel better.
Here are Anxiety Quotes to Reduce Stress, Tension & Anxiety
1. Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity. – T. S. Eliot
2. Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness. – Richard Carlson
3. The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.
– Wayne Dyer
4. Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. – Soren Kierkegaard
5. It’s not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it. – Hans Selye
6. Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic. -Anais Nin
7. If you can’t do anything about it then let it go. Don’t be a prisoner to things you can’t change. – Tony Gaskins
8. A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. – Plato
9. 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
10. Anxiety’s like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you very far.
– Jodi Picoult
11. If you don’t think your anxiety, depression, sadness and stress impact your physical health, think again. All of these emotions trigger chemical reactions in your body, which can lead to inflammation and a weakened immune system. Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days. – Kris Carr
12. 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 J. Bernstein
13. Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety. – Plato
14. You can’t always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside. – Wayne Dyer
15. Anxiety is one little tree in your forest. Step back and look at the whole forest.
16. 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 Roche
17. A day of worrying is more exhausting than a week of work. – John Lubbock
18. You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.
-Dan Millman
19. You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.
– Steve Maraboli
20. Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder. – Edvard Munch
21. You need to be able to manage stress because hard times will come, and a positive outlook is what gets you through. – Marie Osmond
22. Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things. – Joyce Meyer
23. The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts. – Bryant H. McGill
24. There are times in life when there’s absolutely nothing you can do, also known as a chance to relax. – Robert Brault
25. Stress, anxiety and depression are caused when we are living to please others. – Paulo Coelho
26. Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.
– Natalie Goldberg
27. One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. 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
28. Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths.
– Charles H. Spurgeon
Overcoming Anxiety Quotes
29. Running is a great way to relieve stress and clear the mind. – Joan Van Ark
30. Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There’s going to be stress in life, but it’s your choice whether you let it affect you or not. – Valerie Bertinelli
31. Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it. – Boethius
32. Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. – Chinese Proverb
33. When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive–to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. – Marcus Aurelius
34. Letting go helps us to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress. – Melody Beattie
35. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it. – Ray Bradbury
36. Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be. – Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
37. Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.
– Kevin Hart
38. Taking time out each day to relax and renew is essential to living well. – Judith Hanson Lasater
39. Stop a minute, right were you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. tell that imperious voice in your head to be still. – Barbara Kingsolver
40. Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one. – Hans Selye
41. Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience. – Victoria Holt
42. To experience peace doesn’t 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 Bolte Taylor
43. If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath. – Amit Ray
44. Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life. – Marilu Henner
45. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
– Mother Teresa
46. If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
47. Just because I can’t explain the feelings causing my anxiety doesn’t make them less valid.
– Lauren Elizabeth
48. A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. – Aesop
49. The other thing is that if you rely solely on medication to manage depression or anxiety, for example, you have done nothing to train the mind so that when you come off the medication, you are just as vulnerable to a relapse as though you had never taken the medication. – Daniel Goleman
50. There are far, far better things ahead than anything we leave behind. – C. S. Lewis
Share these anxiety quotes to make yourself or someone feels better
Read more
10 Unusual Things Your Body Does During Anxiety Attack
37 Calm Quotes and Sayings To Make You Feel Better
Pin it
