Rollo May Quotes

If you didn't have anxiety, then you wouldn't have passion for anything. The reason we have anxiety is because you care and you're thoughtful.

When you're an orthodox worrier, some days are worse than others.

I stress a lot, sometimes.

You can always find stress in someone's life if you want to. You ask a few questions, and eventually, it's, 'Yes, I admit, I was worried about something recently.'

Feeling anxious or depressed sometimes is part of what it means to be a person, and it might even be essential to success.

The struggle for life is not only the material and economic one. Comfort is no protection from anxiety.

Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.

To worry is to become accessible, unwittingly accessible. And once you worry you cling to anything out of desperation; and once you cling you are bound to get exhausted or to exhaust whoever or whatever you are clinging to.

Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history.

My anxieties have anxieties.

Anxiety is the illness of our age. We worry about ourselves, our family, our friends, our work, and our state of the world. If we allow worry to fill our hearts, sooner or later we will get sick.

The solution probably doesn't look like the problem. If we have this propensity to worry, to be anxious, to be depressed, to be angry - focusing on the worry, anxiety, depression, and anger? Probably not gonna be the solution.

Most people live somewhere on the spectrum of anxiety and depression.

I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone.

Stress is not the spice of life any more than arsenic is. And without it, you won't feel bored.

My roommates are all such happy-go-lucky guys, and I carry some of the stress around a lot more.

To grapple with and understand anxiety is, in some sense, to grapple with and understand the human condition.

I have a hard time being happy, and I think a lot of creative people suffer with that when life gets real happy.

I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.

I stress out a lot. Being a perfectionist doesn't help with that!

The older I get, the more nervous and anxiety-ridden I get. I don't know how to fix that.

I've often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

Depression is something I've dealt with every day of my life.

I've had my share of dark days of the soul. I try not to focus on it too much so it doesn't get to me.

I always have stress.