No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.
The root of all human anxiety is the attempt to hold your breath indefinitely.
Paradoxical intention teaches us to confront our fears directly with a smile, stripping anxiety of its catastrophic power.
The fragrance of the Beloved's courtyard has reached me; how can I remain trapped in the cage of worldly anxiety?
He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because of his fear.
The eye never carries the load; it only watches and fears how much the head must bear.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Do not let future things disturb you, for you will come to them, if you shall at all, having the same reason which now you use on present things.
He suffers more than is necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
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