Northrop Frye Quotes

Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can't control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I'm just not going to go outside the house. I'm going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

I try not to worry about the future - so I take each day just one anxiety attack at a time.

I'm generally known as a happy person, but years ago, I suffered from panic and anxiety. I've learned to manage the fear and pain.

I am on medication - I've talked about that before - just to help my anxiety, so I'm not depressed all the time.

I've been anxious but not depressed. I'm an incorrigible optimist.

I try not to take pressure because that it just stresses you out.

My main concern is with the anxiety that has settled upon America.

Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.

Anxiety is loves greatest killer.

I think people with anxiety do different things during different years, and for me, I waded through my anxiety during the last two years with men, and flirting, and dating, and this thing and that thing, and so that's going to stop, and that has stopped.

Unfortunately, on one or both of my shoulders sits lots of anxiety and that is a controlling factor in my life.

The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated, our ancient stress response hasn't been able to keep up.

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

I've learned one important lesson in my life, and I'm going to share it with you. Don't worry about bad things that haven't happened yet. It will save you a lot of anxiety.

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

Although anxiety is part of life, never let it control you.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

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.

The presence of anxiety is unavoidable, but the prison of anxiety is optional. Anxiety is not a sin; it's an emotion. So don't be anxious about feeling anxious. Anxiety can, however, lead to sinful behavior. When we numb our fears with six-packs or food binges, when we spew anger like Krakatau, when we peddle our fears to anyone who will buy them, we're sinning.

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

Anxiety is the gap between now and later.

It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.

For most of my life, I was a worrier and an over-thinker. I had pretty bad social anxiety.

Anxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered in anything short of God and His will.