Jake Arrieta Quotes

If you think negatively, it's hard to get out of tense moments.

It's time we learned the truth about stress. It's time we identified the thoughts that actually create our stress and learned to dismantle them one by one.

The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it's your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can't package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking.

If you struggle with putting things into perspective, just ask yourself two simple questions: What's the worst thing that could happen as a result of this? Will this matter in five years? Your answers should put a stop to cataclysmic thinking.

Remember that stress doesn't come from what's going on in your life. It comes from your thoughts about what's going on in your life.

I'm a worrywart, so I'm always a bit more stressed out than I should be or wish I was.

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.

I'm just not in a place in my life where I worry about something unnecessarily.

Whenever you see me and I'm hitting ground ball after ground ball, you know I'm not feeling right.

I'm learning what triggers me. What to stay away from. What I do like and what I don't like. To me, I've learned so much about myself that now I'm a stronger person. But I still deal with anxiety. Anxiety doesn't go away.

I believe, as human beings, we sometimes indulge in self pity more than it's necessary. Over my life's journey, I have realised that overthinking about your problems and indulging in self-pity is not the answer to get through tough times.

If you start to dwell on your pain, the amount of pain will increase.

There are a lot of things that I'm allowing myself to be, but it's a conscious effort to experience contentment for me. My brain doesn't do that naturally. I'm very overwhelmed all of the time.

Worry means the mind is controlling you. Worry is always pointless. A solution never comes out of worry.

Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It's a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it.

The secret to a happy, successful life of paranoia is to keep careful track of your persecutors.

The truth is that stress doesn't come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about these circumstances.

People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.

I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, 'No, you just have anxiety.'

Mostly, I avoid worrying since the time spent doing it could be spent more constructively.

Get away from the place that makes you feel comfortable with your depression. The reality is it's never as bad as the insanity you've created in your head.

Every time you think a negative thought, it's one step in the wrong direction, for me.

I don't put myself under pressure.

I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.

I'm neurotic about trying not to be neurotic!