100+ Short Inspirational Quotes to Soothe Anxiety and Empower Your Mind

"You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go, and see what happens."

- Mandy Hale

"Smile, breathe, go slowly."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Breathe. You’re going to be okay. You’ve gotten through so many things in your life. You’ve got this."

- Karen Salmansohn

"Anxiety happens when you think you have to figure it 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

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

- Charles Spurgeon

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

- Astrid Alauda

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- William James

"Smile, breathe, and go slowly."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

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

- Corrie ten Boom

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

- Marcus Aurelius

"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

"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

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Roy T. Bennett

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"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.

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"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

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

- Dan Millman

"If you can't fly, run. If you can't run, walk. If you can't walk, crawl, but by all means, keep moving."

- Martin Luther King, Jr

"My anxiety doesn't come from thinking about the future but from wanting to control it."

- Hugh Prather

"If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

"Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges."

- Bryant McGill

"If we wanted to change the situation, we first had to change ourselves. And to change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions."

- Stephen Covey

"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you’re always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be."

- Maya Angelou

"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

"Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health."

- Dalai Lama

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

- Wayne Dyer

"The truth is some days I don’t give it my best. I don’t even give it my all. I can only manage to give it my some, and it’s not even that great. But I’m still here and I’m still trying."

- Nanea Hoffman

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

- Thich Nhat Hanh

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

- Eckhart Tolle

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

- Louise Hay

"Be brave enough to heal yourself even when it hurts."

- Bianca Sparacino

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

- Karen Salmansohn

"I will breathe. I will think of solutions. I will not let my worry control me. I will not let my stress level break me. And it will be okay because I won’t quit."

- Shayne Mcclendon

"Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart."

- Roy T. Bennett

"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

"Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have."

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Dan Millman

"Everything you want is on the other side of fear."

- Jack Canfield

"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

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

- Henry Ford

"Feel the feeling but don’t become the emotion. Witness it. Allow it. Release it."

- Crystal Andrus

"Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

- Reinhold Niebuhr

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

- Lao Tzu

"You’re a fighter. Look at everything you’ve overcome. Don’t give up now."

- Olivia Benson

"I don’t think people realize how much strength it takes to pull your own self out of a dark place mentally. If you did that today or any other day, I’m proud of you."

- Horacio Jones

"Anything that costs you your peace is too expensive."

- Tenzin Gyatso

"You are not weak. People like us, we're brave. We're the ones who get up and face our worst fears every day. We keep fighting."

- Jen Wilde

"Remember how far you’ve come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be."

- Rick Warren

"Anxiety I will transform you into something useful and productive. I will not bow down to you."

- Jaeda Dewalt

"You don’t have to control your thoughts, you just have to let them stop controlling you."

- Dan Millman

"Fear thrives in a place of inaction. Overcome your anxiety by taking one small step forward."

- Sarah Boyd

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

- Amit Ray

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

- Wayne Dyer

"You can’t calm the storm. So stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass."

- Timber Hawkeye

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love."

- Brené Brown

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

- Robert S. Eliot

"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

"The elimination diet: Remove anger, regret, resentment, guilt, blame and worry. Then watch your health, and life, improve."

- Charles Glassman

"A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety."

- Aesop

"Worry in the dark can make it even darker."

- Camron Wright

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

- Madeleine L’Engle

"There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature."

- Henry David Thoreau

"What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?"

- Thomas á Kempis

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

- Charlie Chaplin

"When you walk through a storm hold your head up high, and don’t be afraid of the dark/At the end of the storm is a golden sky, and the sweet silver song of a lark."

- Oscar Hammerstein II

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

- Gretchen Rubin

"Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression…It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment."

- Grenville Kleiser

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

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

- Prem Prakash

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

- Christopher Hitchens

"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

"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

"Become a worry-slapper. Treat frets like mosquitoes. Do you procrastinate when a bloodsucking bug lights on your skin? 'I'll take care of it in a moment.' Of course, you don't! You give the critter the slap it deserves. Be equally decisive with anxiety."

- Max Lucado

"I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, not just for tomorrow, but in the here and now."

- Carl Sandburg

"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

- Confucius

"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

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul."

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

- Zig Ziglar

"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

"Calmness is the cradle of power."

- J.G. Holland

"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

"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

"Comedy is defiance. It’s a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it’s the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale."

- Will Durst

"Going through things you never thought you’d go through will only take you places you never thought you’d get to."

- Morgan Harper Nichols

"Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today."

- Will Rogers

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

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

- Pearl S. Buck

"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

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

- Renee Jain

"You can’t go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending."

- James R. Sherman

"If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere."

- Frank A. Clark

"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."

- Dr. Seuss

"The life in front of you is far more important than the life behind you."

- Joel Osteen

"I can do all this through Him who gives me strength."

- Philippians 4:12–13

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

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Kahlil Gibran

"Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action."

- Walter Anderson

"It’s not time to worry yet."

- Harper Lee

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

- Anne Lamott

"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

"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

"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

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

- William James

"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

"Do not fight your negative emotions. Observe and befriend them."

- Haemin Sunim

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

- Joseph Campbell

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."

- Mother Teresa

"Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it’s often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction and life paralysis."

- Brené Brown

"Rule No. 1 is, don’t sweat the small stuff. Rule No. 2 is, it’s all small stuff."

- Robert Eliot

"Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again."

- Nelson Mandela

"No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That’s the only way to keep the roads clear."

- Greg Kincaid

"Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is."

- Ernest Hemingway

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

- S.C. Lourie

"A problem is a chance for you to do your best."

- Duke Ellington

"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

"This life is mine alone. So I have stopped asking people for directions to places they’ve never been."

- Glennon Doyle

"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."

- Anais Nin

"Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe."

- Mark Twain

"We tend to think that the future happens later, but we’re creating it in our minds every day."

- Lori Gottlieb

"Feelings don’t try to kill you, even the painful ones. Anxiety is a feeling grown too large. A feeling grown aggressive and dangerous. You’re responsible for its consequences, you’re responsible for treating it. But...you’re not responsible for causing it. You’re not morally at fault for it. No more than you would be for a tumor."

- Patrick Ness

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

- William Faulkner

"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

"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

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

- Michel de Montaigne

"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

"Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important."

- Natalie Goldberg

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

- Jodi Picoult

"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

"The way you tell your story to yourself matters."

- Amy Cuddy

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

- Hans Selye

"Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are."

- Chinese proverb

"Everyone remembers the remark of the old man at the point of death, that his life had been full of troubles—most of which had never happened."

- Winston Churchill

"Flowers grow back even after the harshest winters. You will too."

- Jennae Cecilia

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

- David Levithan

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

- Lauren Elizabeth

"Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace."

- Robert J. Sawyer

"For me, a calm house, equals a calm heart, equals a calm life."

- Erica Layne

"Whatever happens around you, don’t take it personally...Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves."

- Don Miguel Ruiz

"Choose to be optimistic. It feels better."

- Dalai Lama

"Close your eyes and imagine the best version of you possible, that’s who you really are. Let go of any part of you that doesn’t believe it."

- C. Assaad

"You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending."

- C.S. Lewis

"What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create."

- Buddha

"A victory against my old friend anxiety."

- Lisa Wilson

"I lied and said I was busy. I was busy but not in a way most people understand. I was busy taking deeper breaths. I was busy silencing irrational thoughts. I was busy calming a racing heart. I was busy telling myself I am okay. Sometimes this is my busy and I will not apologize for it."

- B. Oakman

"People cry not because they’re weak. It’s because they’ve been strong too long."

- Johnny Depp

"Cast all your anxiety on Him because he cares for you."

- 1 Peter 5:7

"Fear not, for I am with you. Be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, Yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand."

- Isaiah 41:10

"Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not let them be afraid."

- John 14:27

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him and he shall direct your paths."

- Proverbs 3:5-6

"For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind."

- 2 Timothy 1:7

"When my heart is overwhelmed, lead me to the rock that is higher than I."

- Psalm 61:2

"But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. “Do not fear their threats; do not be frightened.”"

- 1 Peter 3:4

"Do not be anxious about tomorrow."

- Matthew 6:34

"I have told you these things so that you may have peace. In this world, you will have trouble. But take heart. I have overcome the world."

- John 16:33

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

- Wayne Dyer

"Worrying is a waste of imagination."

- Walt Disney

"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

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

- Sydney J. Harris

"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

"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

"The more honest you are, the more open, the less fear you will have, because there’s no anxiety about being exposed or revealed to others."

- Dalai Lama

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

- Remez Sasson

"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

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

- Winston Churchill

"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

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

- Etty Hillesum

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

- Plato

"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

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

- William S. Burroughs

"Let fear be a counselor and not a jailer."

- Tony Robbins

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

- Deepak Chopra

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

- Fred Rogers

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- E. Joseph Cossman

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

- Greenville Kleisser

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

- Zig Ziglar

"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

"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

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

"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

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

- Zig Ziglar

"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

"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

"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

"Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."

- Oprah Winfrey

"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

"I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened."

- Mark Twain

"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

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

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Charlie Chaplin

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

- Benjamin Franklin

"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

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

- Sonia Ricotti

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

- T.S. Eliot

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

- Jodi Picoult

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

- Charlie Chaplin

"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Once you realize there is life after mistakes, you gain a self-confidence that never goes away."

- Bob Schieffer

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."

- Albert Einstein

"Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions."

- Dalai Lama

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

- Mandy Hale

"What people in the world think of you is really none of your business."

- Martha Graham

"Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want."

- Alan Cohen

"Stress is an ignorant state. It believes everything is an emergency."

- Natalie Goldberg

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

- Anaïs Nin

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

- Amit Ray

"Never fear shadows. They simply mean there’s a light shining somewhere nearby."

- Ruth E. Renkel

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

- Proverb

"The universe doesn’t allow perfection."

- Stephen Hawking

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

- Virginia Woolf

"Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity."

- T.S. Eliot

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

- Sylvia Plath

"There are two ways to get rid of an anxiety monster, my friend—you either have a bath or a nap."

- Andrew Kaufman

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

- Hans Seyle

"Stress is the alarm clock that lets you know you’ve attached to something not true for you."

- Byron Katie

"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."

- Søren Kierkegaard

"She was always fighting a battle, but her smile would never tell you so."

- Nikki Rowe

"The quality of your life is where you live emotionally."

- Tony Robbins

"I won’t let my pain turn my heart into something ugly. I will show you that surviving can be beautiful."

- Christy Ann Martine

"A year from now everything your stressing about won’t mean a thing."

- Nitya Prakash

"Enlightenment is when a wave realizes it is an ocean."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Social anxiety results from being around people who are resolutely opposed to who you are."

- Stefan Molyneux

"The secret to living well is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple, and love without measure."

- Tibetan Proverb

"If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be."

- Yogi Berra

"Worrying is like sitting in a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but doesn’t get you anywhere."

- English Proverb

"Anxiety is when the butterflies in your stomach turn into bees."

- Bridgett Devoue

"We suffer more in imagination than in reality."

- Seneca

"Relax; the world’s not watching that closely. It’s too busy contemplating itself in the mirror."

- Richelle E. Goodrich

"Nothing about depression and anxiety is easy."

- Keisha Defliger

"They told me all of my cages were mental, so I got wasted like all my potential"

- Taylor Swift

"Sometimes, all you can do is lie in bed, and hope to fall asleep before you fall apart."

- William C. Hannan

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

- Kathryn Budig

"It is mental slavery to cling to things that have stopped serving its purpose in your life."

- Chinonye J. Chidolue

"No one can pray and worry at the same time."

- Max Lucado

"I have social anxiety. It's easier up on stage because there's security in being there. When I'm off stage I'm trying not to be a manic freak. I'm quite shy."

- Sia Furler

"The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all."

- Mignon McLaughlin

"Too often, the only escape is sleep."

- Charles Bukowski

"Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday."

- Ann Brashares

"A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push."

- Lugwig Wittgenstein

"A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you."

"You were given this life because you are strong enough to live it."

"Your anxiety is lying to you. You are loved and are going to be okay."

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

"Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations."

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

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

"I know you’re sad, so I won’t tell you to have a good day. Instead, I advise you to have a day. Stay alive, feed yourself well, wear comfortable clothes, and don’t give up on yourself just yet. It’ll get better. Until then, have a day."

"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."

"It’s so empowering to say “this isn’t serving me’ and walk away in peace."

"Today I will not stress over the things I can’t control."

"You wake up every morning to fight the same demons that left you so tired the night before, and that, my love, is bravery."

"The minute you let anxiety flow freely is the minute you stop fearing it."

"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 each day."

"Living with anxiety, turning up and doing stuff with anxiety takes a strength most will never know."

"Remember: There is nothing wrong with having an anxiety attack. It doesn’t mean you’re weak or broken or flawed."

"Worrying doesn’t take away tomorrow’s troubles. It takes away today’s peace."

"When thinking about the future, remember this: no amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of anxiety can change the future."

"I deserve a break from my own thoughts."

"Don’t forget that you’re human. It’s okay if you have a meltdown. Just don’t unpack and live there. Cry it out. Then refocus on where your headed."

"Don’t believe everything you think."

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

"Those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."

"Some day everything will make sense. So for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears, and keep reminding yourself that everything happens for a reason."

"Don’t allows yourself to wake up with yesterday’s issues troubling your mind. Refuse to live backwards, see every day is a new chapter."

"Spend time with people who bring out the best in you, not the stress in you."

"Stop thinking about everything so much, you’re breaking your own heart."

"If you feel anxious about an event before it happens, you’ll put yourself through the same mental state twice instead of just once."

"If it’s out of your hands, it deserves freedom from your mind too."

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

"Just because I carry it well doesn’t mean it’s not heavy."

"It’s disrepectful, in my opinion, when people talk about anxiety attacks as if they’re just a slight hiccup."

"If it’s not going to matter in five years, don’t spend five minutes being upset about it."

"You cannot heal in the same environment where you got sick."

"It is both a blessing and a curse to feel everything so very deeply."

"I came. I saw. I had anxiety… so I left."

"Me: What could possibly go wrong? Anxiety: I’m glad you asked."

"Let’s just say my anxieties, have anxieties."

"I have two moods: constant panic and worry about every little detail and YOLO"

"Everyone thinks I’m overdramatic when I’m stressed. When an octopus is stressed, it eats itself. Now that’s overdramatic."

"If anxiety burned calories, I’d be a supermodel."

"Life would be a million times better if there were pinatas strategically placed throughout the day."

"I stress about stress before there’s even stress to stress about. Then I stress about stressing over stress that doesn’t need to be stressed about. It’s stressful."

"I’m somewhere between giving up and seeing how much more I can take."

"A beautiful day begins with a beautiful mindset."

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

"Let whatever you do today be enough."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

"The chill pill I took this morning seems to be a placebo."

"Too numb to feel anything."

"I couldn’t heal because I kept pretending I wasn’t hurt."