40 Quotes About Anxiety to Calm Your Mind

Liputan6.com, Jakarta Quotes about anxiety can help us understand and deal with our worries and fears. Anxiety is when we feel nervous or scared about something. Many of us experience it at different times in our lives, like when we're about to take a big test or when we're facing new challenges.

While you should always seek the guidance of a mental health professional if you're dealing with crippling levels of anxiety, we hope that these quotes about anxiety can help you find comfort and solace. Moreover, we hope they will inspire you to keep going.

1. "If you can't fly, run. If you can't run, walk. If you can't walk, crawl, but by all means, keep moving." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

2. "Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, it empties today of its strength." - Corrie Ten Boom

3. "I need to change the pattern of my thoughts, and maybe I will also change the way my brain physically functions." - Jonathan Safran Foer

4. "Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength." - Charles Spurgeon

5. "You don't have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you." - Dan Millman

6. "There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will." - Epictetus

7. "Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on." - Eckhart Tolle

8. "Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important." - Natalie Goldberg

9. "How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened." - Thomas Jefferson

10. "Anxiety is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far." - Jodi Picoult

11. "People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them." - George Bernard Shaw

12. "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

13. "You cannot always control what goes on outside, but you can always control what goes on inside." - Wayne Dyer

14. "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

15. "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

16. "Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor." - Thich Nhat Hanh

17. "A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you." - Joyce Meyer

18. "Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer." - William S. Burroughs

19. "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

20. "If we wanted to change the situation, we first had to change ourselves. And to change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions." - Stephen Covey

1. "Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow." - Swedish proverb

2. "Do what you can, with what you've got, where you are." - Theodore Roosevelt

3. "Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges." - Bryant McGill

4. "Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it." - Anonymous

5. "Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action." - Walter Anderson

6. "For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business." - T.S. Eliot

7. "Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety." - Plato

8. "Present fears are less than horrible imaginings." - William Shakespeare

9. "Not everything that weighs you down is yours to carry." - Anonymous

10. "The way you tell your story to yourself matters." - Amy Cuddy

11. "We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie." - David Mamet

12. "It's not time to worry yet." - Harper Lee

13. "Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health." - Dalai Lama

14. "Nothing is permanent in this wicked world—not even our troubles." - Charlie Chaplin

15. "It's not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it." - Hans Selye

16. "Surrender to what is, let go of what was, and have faith in what will be." - Sonia Ricotti

17. "Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are." - Chinese proverb

18. "The universe doesn't allow perfection." - Stephen Hawking

19. "Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light." - Madeleine L'Engle

20. "Worry in the dark can make it even darker." - Camron Wright

By changing our thought patterns, we can potentially change how our brain processes anxiety. We hope this collection of quotes about anxiety can help you overcome anxiety and challenges.