30 More Quotes to Help Ease Your Anxiety
In September 2021, I shared 40 Supportive Quotes that you could use as reminders and to feel supported to better manage your anxiety. Since then it feels like our lives and our world have become even more hectic, chaotic and downright hard to understand. I don’t know about you, but this environment makes my anxiety go through the roof!
But one thing still really helps - reading motivation quotes. There is something very calming about these little reminders that “this too shall pass” and that I am not alone. When I connect with these quotes, I feel a perspective shift that creates a sense of ease and freedom from my overthinking mind.
And I hope these will do the same for you.
Here is a second list of my favorite quotes about overcoming anxiety. Again, I hope these provide the motivation, encouragement and support you need to feel a little less anxious and a little more confident to take on whatever life throws at you.
“A thought is harmless until we believe it. It’s not our thoughts but our attachment to our thoughts that causes suffering.” - Byron Katie
“Just because your light flickers does not mean it’s about to go out.” – Yohancé Salimu
“Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience.” - Jon Kabat-Zinn
“Live the actual moment. Only this actual moment is life.” - Thích Nhất Hạnh
“You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.” - Pema Chödrön
“Don’t believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that – thoughts.” - Allan Lokos
“If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.” - Amit Ray
“You can’t always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.” – Wayne Dyer
“I promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems. Nothing is worth diminishing your health. Nothing is worth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and fear.” – Steve Maraboli
“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” – Wayne Dyer
“By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before.” – Edwin Elliot
“Don’t assume I’m weak because I have panic attacks. You’ll never know the amount of strength it takes to face the world every day.” – Unknown
“Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside of you that is greater than any obstacle.” – Christian D. Larson
“Whatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not.” – Ana Monnar
“The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.” – William James
“It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains!” – Alice Caldwell Rice
“You’re worried about what-ifs. Well, what if you stopped worrying?” – Shannon Celebi
“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
“If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.” – Fred Rogers
“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” – Maya Angelou
“You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” – Martin Luther King
“Many of us feel stress and get overwhelmed not because we’re taking on too much, but because we’re taking on too little of what really strengthens us.” – Marcus Buckingham
“Please forgive me if I don’t talk much at times. It sometimes gets loud in my head.” – Unknown
“Breathe darling. This is just a chapter. It’s not your whole story.” – S.C. Lourie
“Mantra for Anxiety: This is not you. This is something moving through you. It can leave out of the same door it came in.” – James Clear
“Stop beating yourself up for not being perfect. You were never designed to be anyway.” – Unknown
“Every moment is a fresh beginning.” - T.S. Elliot
“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.” —Virginia Woolf
“Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.” —Natalie Goldberg
“Do what you can, with what you’ve got, where you are.” —Theodore Roosevelt
Want to learn additional steps you can do right now to feel less worry and more ease in your life? Download my Essential Guide to Coping with Uncertainty today!