Anxiety Cycle Quotes

We are tempted to believe that certain achievements and possessions will give us enduring satisfaction. We are invited to imagine ourselves scaling the steep cliff face of happiness in order to reach a wide, high plateau on which we will live out the rest of our lives; we are not reminded that soon after gaining the summit, we will be called down again into fresh lowlands of anxiety and desire.

When I get online, there's this cycle of anxiety and narcissism that takes over, which is the part of me that I like the least.

We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.

Worried thought prevents practical thought which could prevent worried thought.

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.

Sovereignty is the term the Bible uses to describe God's perfect control and management of the universe. He preserves and governs every element. He's continually involved with all created things, directing them to act in a way that fulfills his divine purpose. That's why the most stressed-out people are control freaks. They fail at the quest they most pursue. The more they try to control the world, the more they realize they cannot. Life becomes a cycle of anxiety, failure; anxiety, failure; anxiety, failure. We can't take control, because control is not ours to take.

I have a little mantra: 'My fear grows fat on the energy I feed it. And if it grows very big, it probably happens.'

When you spent so much time being terrified that you're going to get something, and then you have it, you don't have to be terrified anymore.