Alain de Botton Quotes

Anxiety is a natural thing humans have. You know, that's how we evolve. That's how we are, you know, we think things through. Sometimes my mind just thinks things through a lot.

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.'

To live by worry is to live against reality

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.

When you worry your face will frown, that will bring everybody down, so don't worry BE HAPPY!:)

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

most people worry so much, they think you're not right if you don't worry.

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

Worry is a complete waste of energy. It solves nothing.

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

Worry is a form of fear.

Evil is a disease; and worry over disease is itself an additional form of disease, which only adds to the original complaint.

You have to not worry or doubt or punish yourself. All the worry, doubt and punishment will not add one second to your life, you know?

If you are worried or afraid of anything, there is something in your mental attitude that needs correction.

Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your reserves.

Most of the things I worried about in life never happened.

Our worries always come from our weaknesses.

Most men have worried about things which never happened, and more men have been killed by worry than by hard work.

want won't kill you half as quick as worry will.

Fear and stress - one creates the other.

I'm worried about everything at all times.

Furthermore, worrying about people and problems doesn't help. It doesn't solve problems, it doesn't help other people, and it doesn't help us. It is wasted energy.

Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are billed to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death.

You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.

Worry lives a long way from rational thought."---Self