19 Wise Anxiety Quotes

1. "Thought is responsible for fear. Thought is responsible for pleasure." (Jiddu Krishnamurti) Click to tweet

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2. "There is nothing that the busy man is less busy with than living; there is nothing harder to learn." (Seneca) Click to tweet

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3. "They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn." (Seneca) Click to tweet

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4. "Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate." (Soren Kierkegaard) Click to tweet

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5. "Anxiety is the human condition. It’s probably the single most pervasive emotion." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet

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6. "Humans aren’t evolved to worry about everything happening outside of their immediate environment." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet

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7. "Chasing after the things one yearns for is inferior to chasing after the source of the yearning." (Wu Hsin) Click to tweet

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8. "No amount of anxiety can change the future. No amount of regret can change the past." (Karen Salmansohn) Click to tweet

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9. "Remember one thing: except for silence, everything else is your imagination – howsoever beautiful." (Osho) Click to tweet

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10. "Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems." (Epictetus) Click to tweet

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11. "A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety." (Aesop) Click to tweet

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12. "One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious." (Alan Watts) Click to tweet

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13. "Perhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments — an inability to accept life as ongoing." (Sarah Manguso) Click to tweet

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14. "The anxiety many feel is a result of trying to live in the world their imagination created, while being forced to live in the real world." (Thibaut) Click to tweet

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15. "Desire disappears as you become more and more aware. When awareness is one hundred percent, there is no desire at all." (Osho) Click to tweet

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16. "Anxiety contaminates the present with the pains of all imaginable futures. We cannot experience the fullness of the moment if we are forever suffering from hypothetical hardships."Click to tweet

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17. "People think it would be nice to have peace of mind, to be serene, to be calm, to be undisturbed by this, that, and the other. But as long as you make all those things objects of desire, you have defined yourself as lacking them." (Alan Watts) Click to tweet

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18. "Short-term thinking makes people desperate, ungenerous, impulsive. Long-term thinking makes people calm, gracious, controlled. The mighty pyramids and cathedrals were built by civilizations with a long time horizon, so it is with the life of a great man."Click to tweet

19. "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) Click to tweet