33 Quotes About Calming Anxiety

Anxiety and fear commonly plague some of the biggest celebrities and stars. These quotes about calming anxiety encourage measures to be taken that prevent this.

“Abundance is a process of letting go; that which is empty can receive.”

“Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.”

“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.”

“Anxiety is one little tree in your forest. Step back and look at the whole forest.”

“Anxiety’s like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you very far.”

“Don’t let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries.”

“Every day brings a choice: to practice stress or to practice peace.”

“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.”

“Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.”

“I promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems. Nothing is worth your health. Nothing is worth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and fear.”

“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.”

“If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.”

“Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.”

“Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.”

“Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.”

“My need to solve the problem is the problem.”

“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”

“Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.”

“Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.”

“People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.”

“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.”

“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.”

“Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.”

“Stress is caused by being ‘here’ but wanting to be ‘there.’”

“Stress is the trash of modern life — we all generate it but if you don’t dispose of it properly, it will pile up and overtake your life.”

“The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness.”

“The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.”

“There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.”

“Worrying is carrying tomorrow’s load with today’s strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time.”

“You can’t always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.”

“You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.”

“You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.”

“You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.”

There are various ways to calm you anxiousness.