anxiety

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.

For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation.

He who fears death cannot enjoy life.

Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.

To live your life in the fear of losing it is to lose the point of life.

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces. Never will the world know all it owes to them nor all they have suffered to enrich us.

A good life fears not life nor death.

If we let things terrify us life will not be worth living.

Only man clogs his happiness with care destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

We need not be afraid of the future for the future will be in our own hands.

The sheer rebelliousness in giving ourselves permission to fail frees a childlike awareness and clarity. ... When we give ourselves permission to fail we at the same time give ourselves permission to excel.

It is not death that a man should fear he should fear never beginning to live.

How often the fear of one evil leads into a worse.

Anxiety is the interest paid on trouble before it is due.

It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.

Death does not frighten me but dying obscurely and above all uselessly does.

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Don't be afraid your life will end be afraid it will never begin.