anxiety quotes to calm your mind and racing thoughts
Anxious thoughts can attack at any moment, leaving you cycling through worries.
Anxiety negatively affects your physical being and emotional state. But overthinking days don’t have to define your life.
There are anxiety medications and therapists that can help you navigate the condition.
But you can also manage anxiety by calming your racing thoughts with helpful quotes and intentional affirmations.
Here are several quotes to ground you when you feel your thoughts racing and can’t seem to calm your mind.
anxiety quotes to calm your mind
“Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
― Corrie Ten Boom
“You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.”
— Dan Millman
“Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far.”
― Jodi Picoult
“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it's often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis.”
― Brené Brown
“Panic causes tunnel vision. Calm acceptance of danger allows us to more easily assess the situation and see the options.”
— Simon Sinek
“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
“If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.”
— E. Joseph Cossman
“Curiosity and passion are the enemies of anxiety. Even when I fell into anxiety, if I get curious enough about something outside of me it can help pull me out. Music, art, film, nature, conversation, words. Find passion as large as your fear. The way out of your mind is via the world.”
― Matt Haig
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“He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because he fears.”
— Michel de Montaigne
“I do not sleep because I am not only afraid of the monsters at my door, but also of the monsters my own mind can conjure. The ones that live within.”
― Samantha Shannon
“Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.”
— Oprah Winfrey
“It’s okay to be scared. Being scared means you’re about to do something really, really brave.”
― Mandy Hale
“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.”
— William James
“Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges.”
— Bryant H. McGill
“Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths.”
― C. H. Spurgeon
“Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.”
― Wayne W. Dyer
“Chronic anxiety is a state more undesirable than any other, and we will try almost any maneuver to eliminate it. Modern man is living in anxious anticipation of destruction.
― Robert E. Neale
