Aaliyah Quotes

I don't think anyone's found a way of eliminating thoughts of danger and loss. It's rather that, when they're unrealistic, you become an acrobat at marshaling evidence against them.

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Anxiety is an even better teacher than reality, for one can temporarily evade reality by avoiding the distasteful situation; but anxiety is a source of education always present because one carries it within.

Worrying, obsessing, and controlling are illusions. They are tricks we play on ourselves.

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

Always gotta keep busy or the voices start telling me to do wild things.

My natural response to a stressful situation is to shut down. I do weird things, like, I don't cry, I get really cold.

For a long time I thought I could deal with my anger and hostility on my own. But I couldn't. I denied that it had affected me, and yet I was so frantic on the inside with other people: I needed to be constantly reassured.

Focusing on one mildly disturbing, semi-controllable issue allows the mind to stuff much greater terrors in relatively tidy packages.

Sometimes when things are way too big and I can't control it, I do sort of a weird thing where I kind of check out a little bit. It's all about self-preservation for me.

If I start panicking a little bit, I just talk through it with somebody.

It's been a very strong force for me over the years. I don't know exactly why. For some people, fear can be a very useful thing. They can use it to recognise there's something missing, and heal themselves. But fear can also destroy some people. I think I'm the first type of person. I'm pretty anxious, always thinking 'what if?' about the bad stuff.

I went through the process of trying to convince myself I was not ill.

I couldn’t bear to think about the proper future, so I just tried to make things better for the next twenty minutes or so, over and over again.

That's maybe the reason he does so many things so that he will not have to think .

I think I think too much. That's why I drink!

We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.

If I behave as though this is a completely normal situation, then maybe it will be.

Believing that anxious thoughts and feelings can restore order to your life is like using a chain-saw to fold your laundry.

'Worry' is a word that I don't allow myself to use.

If I'm in a rotten mood, I stay in and watch television.

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.

I definitely have an alter ego that can come out and get me out of situations where I'm having social anxiety. I can take a deep breath and create a bubble so I can perform in some way.

I have a very busy head. I have inside voices that I have learned to contain.

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.