Below, you will find my favourite quotes about anxiety, worry, and stress. I hope you like them and get something useful from their wise words.

“Worry is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do, but it never gets you anywhere.”

– Erma Bombeck

“It’s not stress that kills us; it is our reaction to it.”

– Hans Selye

“Stress is caused by being ‘here’ but wanting to be ‘there.”

– Eckhart Tolle

“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.”

– Buddha

“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, so what? That’s one of my favourite things to say, so what?”

– Andy Warhol

“Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.”

– Plato

“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.”

– William James

“Don’t let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries.”

– Astrid Alauda

“Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.”

– Ernest Hemingway

“If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.”

– William James

“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”

– Wayne Dyer

“Ask yourself the question, will it matter a year from now?”

– Richard Carlson

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”

– John Milton

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