Awareness Quotes

"He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because he fears."

- Michel de Montaigne

"Worry is interest paid on trouble before it’s due."

- William Ralph Inge

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

- George Bernard Shaw

"We are more often frightened than hurt, and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."

- Seneca

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

- Corrie ten Boom

"Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths."

- C.H. Spurgeon

"Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you."

- Anaïs Nin

"Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind."

- Arthur Somers Roche

"Worry is like a rocking chair: It gives you something to do but never gets you anywhere."

- Erma Bombeck

"Anxiety is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but doesn’t get you very far."

- Jodi Picoult

"Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry — all forms of fear — are caused by too much future, and not enough presence."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety."

- Dalai Lama

"Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light."

- Madeleine L'Engle

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

- Jodi Picoult

"The best use of creativity is imagination. The worst use of creativity is anxiety."

- Deepak Chopra

"We all have mental health in the same way that we all have physical health. It’s okay to have depression, it’s okay to have anxiety, it’s okay to have an adjustment disorder."

- Prince Harry

"You don’t see [mental illness]: It’s not a mass; it’s not a cyst. But it’s there. Why do you need to prove it? If you can treat it, you treat it."

- Amanda Seyfried

"I’ve suffered through depression and anxiety my entire life, I still suffer with it every single day… I just want these kids to know that that depth that they feel as human beings is normal. We were born that way."

- Lady Gaga

"We're all spending way too much of our time and energy trying to fight the stuff we can't change."

- Gayle King

"90% of our fears never come true."

- Sigmund Freud

"If you aren't willing to have it, you will."

- Steven Hayes

"Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day."

- Voltaire

"Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else."

- Albert Einstein

"Anxiety is a beast we feed by giving it power."

"Overthinking is the art of creating problems that weren’t even there."

"Anxiety is when the mind goes to war with itself."

"Sometimes the worst place you can be is in your own head."

"Anticipation is always worse than realization."

"Anxiety is a misuse of imagination."

"Don't believe everything you think."