Cullen Hightower Quotes

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness isn't unhappiness or even depression, it's anxiety. It is something that can constantly block our happiness, or our chance to reach that sort of meditative state in our work or our home lives.

The anxiety I feel when I'm late is nothing like the anxiety I feel when I'm on time.

Some people are so used to experiencing stress that they don't remember what life was like without it.

True relaxation, which would do me the world of good, does not exist for me.

I'm anxious by nature, I think.

I still find it almost impossible to relax for more than one day at a time.

Everything is so chaotic. My nervous system can't handle it. I need my peace, so, every once in a while, while the kids are at school, I lie in bed, close the curtains, watch television and eat food.

No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.

Writing is a fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats... for jittery people.

When I've gone through those periods of depression or anxiety, it's almost like your body is telling you constantly with these panics that the world really is the terrible place that you think it is, and all the things you fear are true about yourself have to be true.

I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.

I'm not a big worrier because I just think stress is just not a good thing... it's just like, what's the point?

I'll worry about something and get stressed whereas Ant is usually a bit more chilled about things.

I don't think anything affects my nerves.

You ask me, "Will you say something more about relaxation? I am aware of a tension deep in the core of me and suspect that I have probably never been totally relaxed."

Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn't see possibilities. Then came despair.

The more nervous you get, the more worried you get about something... Maybe you just need to take a nap.

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

Panic is our great enemy.

Stop worrying and start living.

I'd have a nervous breakdown except that I've been through this too many times to be nervous.

You're stressing too much about what might be. Do something to take your mind off thinking about what might never happen.

Panic, not the task, is the enemy.

I nodded, pretending I was relaxed. I watched the sunlight sparkling on the water and practiced mind-body integration for a few seconds by quietly hyperventilating.