If a goal is only success oriented and not happiness oriented, then it will fill your life with stress, anxiety, and frustration.

The best treatment for stress, anxiety, and depression is to change your perception by knowing that all of this is coming from a fear induced illusion.

Anxiety swarms in the heart like worms infect the whole body.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

Anxiety and conscience are a powerful pair of dynamos. Between them, they have ensured that I shall work hard, but they cannot ensure that one shall work at anything worthwhile.

We are more often frightened than hurt: our troubles spring more often from fancy than reality.

Without anxiety life would have very little savor.

Now anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity. It is the fruit of unanswered questions. But questions cannot go unanswered unless they first be asked.

Fear, born of the stern matron Responsibility, sits on one's shoulders like some heavy imp of darkness, and one is preoccupied and, possibly, cantankerous.

This is, i think, very much the Age of Anxiety, the age of the neurosis, because along with so much that weighs on our minds there is perhaps even more that grates on our nerves.

How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.

Our imagination and reasoning powers facilitate anxiety; the anxious feeling is precipitated not by an absolute impending threat-such as the worry about an examination, a speech, travel-but rather by the symbolic and often unconscious representations.

Jealousy and anger shorten life, and anxiety brings on old age too soon.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled and the ship never goes down.

The thing that used to worry him most was the fact that people always used to ask him what he was looking so worried about.

Basic anxiety can be roughly described as a feeling of being small, insignificant, helpless, deserted or endangered in a world that is out to abuse, cheat, humiliate, betray, envy... . And special in this is the child's feeling that the parents' love, their Christian charity, honesty, generosity ... may be only a pretense.

Why worry one's head over a thing that is inevitable? Why die before one's death?

Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.

As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.

Most men, however brave, have some anxiety or fear in them.