50 Inspirational Quotes to Help You Overcome Anxiety and Find Peace

"Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Smile, breathe, and go slowly."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it."

- Kahlil Gibran

"He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears."

- Michel de Montaigne

"Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Dan Millman

"Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action."

- Walter Anderson

"If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath."

- Amit Ray

"Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions."

- Kathryn Budig

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

- Sonia Ricotti

"No amount of anxiety can change the future. No amount of regret can change the past."

- Karen Salmansohn

"Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight."

- Benjamin Franklin

"How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you."

- Rupi Kaur

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When you’re feeling anxious, remember that you’re still you. You are not your anxiety."

- Deanne Repich

"Trust yourself. You’ve survived a lot, and you’ll survive whatever is coming"

- Robert Tew

"Worrying is carrying tomorrow’s load with today’s strength — carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn’t empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength."

- Corrie ten Boom

"Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest taken between two deep breaths."

- Etty Hillesum

"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Anxiety is something that is part of me but it’s not who I am."

- Emma Stone

"Just because I can’t explain the feelings causing my anxiety doesn’t make them less valid."

- Lauren Elizabeth

"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

"Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly."

- Ali Ibn Abi Talib

"Self-observation is the first step of inner unfolding."

- Amit Ray

"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."

- Aristotle

"Success is not final; failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere."

- Barack Obama

"You don't have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you."

- Dan Millman

"Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations. The best is yet to come."

- Zig Ziglar

"You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf."

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

"You are not your illness. You have an individual story to tell. You have a name, a history, and a personality. Staying yourself is part of the battle."

- Julian Seifter

"Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary."

- Fred Rogers

"Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything."

- Mary Hemingway

"I've seen people go from the darkest moments in their lives to living a happy, fulfilling life. You can do it too. I believe in you. You are not a burden. You will never be a burden."

- Sophie Turner

"Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be."

- Wayne W. Dyer

"There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn't."

- John Green

"The psychological condition of fear is divorced from any concrete and true immediate danger. It comes in many forms: unease, worry, anxiety, nervousness, tension, dread, phobia, and so on. This kind of psychological fear is always of something that might happen, not of something that is happening now. You are in the here and now, while your mind is in the future. This creates an anxiety gap. And if you are identified with your mind and have lost touch with the power and simplicity of the Now, that anxiety gap will be your constant companion. You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection - you cannot cope with the future."

- Eckhart Tolle

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

- Jodi Picoult

"Some days, doing ‘ the best we can ’ may still fall short of what we would like to be able to do, but life isn’t perfect — on any front — and doing what we can with what we have is the most we should expect of ourselves or anyone else."

- Fred Rogers

"Don’t believe every worried thought you have. Worried thoughts are notoriously inaccurate."

- Renee Jain

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

- Steve Maraboli

"Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Anxiety happens when you think you have to figure out everything all at once. Breathe. You’re strong. You got this. Take it day by day."

- Karen Salmansohn

"Trust yourself. You’ve survived a lot, and you’ll survive whatever is coming."

- Robert Tew

"The only way out is through."

- Robert Frost

"If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow; it only saps today of its strength."

- A.J. Cronin

"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

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

- C.H. Spurgeon

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."

- Frank Herbert

"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another."

- William James

"Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength."

- Corrie ten Boom

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

- Eckhart Tolle

"When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened."

- Winston Churchill

"P.S. You’re not going to die. Here’s the truth: It feels like you are. It feels like a lion is chasing you. It feels like a bear has spotted you. But it’s just the anxiety. You’re safe."

- Glennon Doyle

"When you’re feeling anxious, remember: It’s just a thought, and a thought can be changed."

- Louise Hay

"Your mind is your instrument. Learn to be its master and not its slave."

- Remez Sasson

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

- Charles Spurgeon

"You can’t always control what goes on outside, but you can always control what goes on inside."

- Wayne Dyer

"Anxiety happens when you think you have to figure everything out all at once. Breathe. You’re strong. You got this."

- Karen Salmansohn

"Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression."

- Grenville Kleiser

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

- Astrid Alauda

"Worrying is praying for something you don’t want."

- Robert Downey Jr.

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

- Dorothy M. Neddermeyer

"If you’re going through hell, keep going."

- Winston Churchill

"Even the darkest night will end, and the sun will rise."

- Les Miserables

"It’s not stress that kills us, it’s our reaction to it."

- Hans Selye

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy."

- Roy T. Bennett

"You wouldn’t let other people treat you the way you treat yourself."

- Cheryl Richardson

"Stop worrying about what can go wrong and get excited about what can go right."

- Tony Robbins

"Feel the fear and do it anyway."

- Susan Jeffers

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

- Anaïs Nin

"Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday."

- Dale Carnegie

"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

"The mind is a wonderful servant but a terrible master."

- Robin Sharma

"No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself."

- Virginia Woolf

"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you."

- Anne Lamott

"You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Surrender to what is. Let go of what was. Have faith in what will be."

- Sonia Ricotti

"Panic causes tunnel vision. Calm acceptance of danger allows us to more easily assess the situation and see the options."

- Simon Sinek

"Do what you can, with what you’ve got, where you are."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow."

- Swedish Proverb

"Present fears are less than horrible imaginings."

- William Shakespeare

"Whatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not."

- Ana Monnar

"No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen."

- Alan Watts

"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

"You don’t drown by falling into water; you only drown if you stay there."

- Zig Ziglar

"In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts."

- Fred Rogers

"If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today."

- E. Joseph Cossman

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

- Joan Borysenko

"Don’t let your difficulties fill you with anxiety; after all, it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly."

- Ali Ibn Abi Talib

"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

"Sometimes letting go is the best way to find peace."

- Donna Goddard

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

- Seneca

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."

- Lao Tzu

"There is more to life than increasing its speed."

- Gandhi

"Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace."

- Dalai Lama

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

- Jodi Picoult

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

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

- Epictetus

"When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in."

- Haruki Murakami

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."

- Confucius

"Sometimes it’s okay if the only thing you did today was breathe."

- Yumi Sakugawa

"It’s okay to make mistakes, to have bad days, to be less than perfect."

- Alison Malee

"You don’t have to have it all figured out to move forward."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Let go of the thoughts that don’t make you strong."

- Karen Salmansohn

"If you want to fly, give up everything that weighs you down."

- Buddha

"Accept what is, let go of what was, and have faith in what will be."

- Sonia Ricotti

"The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy."

- William James

"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles."

- Charlie Chaplin

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

- Alain de Botton

"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."

- Søren Kierkegaard

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

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Anxiety is a living body / Poised beside us like a shadow. / It is the last creature standing, / The only beast who loves us / Enough to stay."

- Amanda Gorman

"The only reality is ‘anxiety’ in the whole chain of beings. To the man lost in the world and its diversions this anxiety is a brief, fleeting fear. But if that fear becomes conscious of itself, it becomes anguish, the perpetual climate of the lucid man “in whom existence is concentrated.”"

- Albert Camus

"Each of us must confront our own fears, must come face to face with them. How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives. To experience adventure or to be limited by the fear of it."

- Judy Blume

"For fast-acting relief, try slowing down."

- Lily Tomlin

"I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one."

- John C. Maxwell

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."

- Henry Ford

"We must be willing to let go of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."

- Joseph Campbell

"Everything you have ever wanted, is sitting on the other side of fear."

- George Addair

"If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it."

- Mary Engelbreit

"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

"In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy."

- Albert Clarke

"Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it."

- Mitch Albom

"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present."

- Jim Rohn

"You don’t drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there."

- Zig Ziglar

"Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the most wonderful things that will ever happen to us."

- Nicole Reed

"Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment."

- J. Donald Walters

"We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure."

- Nick Saban

"Most people are about as happy as they make their minds up to be."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Our stresses, anxieties, pains and problems arise because we do not see the world, others or even ourselves as worthy of love."

- Prem Prakash

"Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside of you that is greater than any obstacle."

- Christian D. Larson

"Every moment is a fresh beginning."

- T.S. Eliot

"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."

- Carl Jung

"It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about."

- Dale Carnegie

"You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway."

- Steve Maraboli

"Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need."

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

"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

"Worrying is carrying tomorrow’s load with today’s strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn’t empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength."

- Corrie ten Boom

"It’s OKAY to be scared. Being scared means you’re about to do something really, really brave."

- Mandy Hale

"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."

- Grenville Kleiser

"To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one’s self…. And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one’s self."

- Søren Kierkegaard

"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."

- Maya Angelou

"I can do this… I can start over. I can save my own life and I’m never going to be alone as long as I have stars to wish on and people to still love."

- Jennifer Elisabeth

"Breathe darling. This is just a chapter. It’s not your whole story."

- S.C. Lourie

"We just need to be kinder to ourselves. If we treated ourselves the way we treated our best friend, can you imagine how much better off we would be?"

- Meghan Markle

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

- Deepak Chopra

"When you make a mistake, respond to yourself in a loving way rather than a self-shaming way."

- Ellie Holcomb

"You can’t just take Tylenol to deal with anxiety. Being able to be level with people, being honest about your problem – that is a huge help."

- Royce White

"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

"As I started opening up and talking about my issues, I felt strength, not vulnerability."

- Michael Phelps

"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

"It’s crazy how your mind will become this database to make you worry about things that are so arbitrary. I have a well-organized life, and I’ve put a lot of thought into the things that I do, and then, you know, my stomach will be... I’ll just be sitting there, totally anxious about something ridiculous. You have to stop yourself during the day and say, ‘It’s just not worth it.’"

- Leonardo DiCaprio

"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

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

- Wayne Dyer

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on."

- Robert Frost

"What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, and more unashamed conversation."

- Glenn Close

"If we start being honest about our pain, our anger, and our shortcomings instead of pretending they don’t exist, then maybe we’ll leave the world a better place than we found it."

- Russell Wilson

"Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all."

- Bill Clinton

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

- Gayle King

"Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave."

- Mary Tyler Moore

"Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you because it will."

- Cheryl Strayed

"It gets easier. Every day it gets a little easier. But you gotta do it everyday. That's the hard part."

- Bojack Horseman

"The perfect is the enemy of the good."

- Voltaire

"Act the way that you want to feel."

- Gretchen Rubin

"If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got."

- Steven Hayes

"[Slow breathing] is like an anchor in the midst of an emotional storm: The anchor won't make the storm goes away, but it will hold you steady until it passes."

- Russ Harris

"It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will."

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

"There are these moments you think you won't survive. And then you survive."

- David Levithan

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

- Thomas Edison

"Fear is the mind killer."

- Frank Herbert

"For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business."

- T.S. Eliot

"Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Don’t settle: Don’t finish crappy books. If you don’t like the menu, leave the restaurant. If you’re not on the right path, get off it."

- Chris Brogan

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

- Madeleine L'Engle

"So the pie isn’t perfect? Cut it into wedges. Stay in control, and never panic."

- Martha Stewart

"What cannot be known hollows the mind. Fill it not with guesswork."

- Galadriel, LOTR (Rings of Power)

"Many of us feel stress and get overwhelmed not because we’re taking on too much, but because we’re taking on too little of what really strengthens us."

- Marcus Buckingham

"If you want to be happy, be."

- Leo Tolstoy

"Don’t be afraid to be afraid."

- Maurice Chevalier

"90% of our fears never come true."

- Sigmund Freud

"Rule number one: Don’t sweat the small stuff. Rule number two: It’s all small stuff."

- Robert S. Eliot

"It’s not time to worry yet."

- Harper Lee

"There is no passion so contagious as that of fear."

- Michel de Montaigne

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes."

- Christopher Hitchens

"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop."

- Mother Teresa

"Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer."

- William S. Burroughs

"No need to hurry, no need to sparkle, no need to be anybody but oneself."

- Virginia Woolf

"In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived. How well we have loved. How well we have learned to let go."

- Jack Kornfield

"Worrying is a waste of imagination."

- Walt Disney

"The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it."

- Sydney J. Harris

"Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity."

- T.S. Eliot

"It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace."

- Chuck Palahniuk

"The universe doesn’t allow perfection."

- Stephen Hawking

"The best thing one can do when it is raining, is to let it rain."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Sometimes, the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the best things that will ever happen to us."

- Nicole Reed

"Choose to be optimistic. It feels better."

- Dalai Lama

"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Actually spending ten minutes clearing off one shelf is better than fantasizing about spending a weekend cleaning out the basement."

- Gretchen Rubin

"When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’"

- Sydney J. Harris

"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore."

- William Faulkner

"There’s a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they’re absolutely free. Don’t miss so many of them."

- Jo Walton

"My ability to turn good news into anxiety is rivaled only by my ability to turn anxiety into chin acne."

- Tina Fey

"Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday."

- Dale Carnegie

"There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea."

- Bernard-Paul Heroux

"I am waiting for my case to come up / and I am waiting / for a rebirth of wonder."

- Lawrence Ferlinghetti

"Smile, it’s free therapy."

- Douglas Horton

"Thankfully, perseverance is a great substitute for talent."

- Steve Martin

"Don’t underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering."

- Winnie the Pooh

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

- Steven Hayes

"To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone."

- Reba McEntire

"This too shall pass."

- Pinterest

"There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full."

- Henry Kissinger

"We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie."

- David Mamet

"Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly."

- Proverb

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

"Don't believe everything you think."

"Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations."

"Don’t believe everything you think."

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

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

"Anxiety is a misuse of imagination."

"Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly."

"Imagine a future version of myself who's freely surpassed my limits! I'll do it! With a strong foundation, and a little bit of sense and imagination, it just takes the slightest trigger to change a person."

"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."

"When you feel overwhelmed, remember: A little at a time is how it gets done. One thing, one task, one moment at a time."

"I don't ask how I got here, I ask where am I going to next and how am I going to get there."

"You can do anything for 5 minutes."

"At the end of the day, tell yourself gently: ‘I love you, you did the best you could today, and even if you didn’t accomplish all you had planned, I love you anyway."

"What if it all works out?"

"It's only embarrassing if you care what people think."

"Anticipation is always worse than realization."

"Anxiety is a lot like a toddler. It never stops talking, tells you you’re wrong about everything, and wakes you up at 3am."

"Don’t assume I’m weak because I have panic attacks. You’ll never know the amount of strength it takes to face the world every day."

"The more you try to control something, the more it controls you. Free yourself, and let things flow naturally."

"Sometimes you just have to stop worrying, wondering, and doubting. Have faith that things will work out."

"Be gentle with yourself, you’re doing the best you can."

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

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

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

"The best antidote to anxiety is action."

"It’s okay to not be okay. Just don’t stay that way."

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

"The moment you stop trying to control everything is the moment you can finally breathe."

"Let whatever you do today be enough."

"Sometimes the best thing you can do is not think, not wonder, not obsess."

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