Quotes like the ones below can be used as small therapy sessions. When you read a quote that makes you feel good, gives you hope, or helps you relax, you know it’s healthy for you. Here’s a compilation of motivational, calming, and uplifting anxiety quotes, sayings, and proverbs to help you get through it.

1. “Everything you have ever wanted, is sitting on the other side of fear.” – George Addair

2. “Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.” – Charles Spurgeon

3. “You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.” – Steve Maraboli

4. “Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.” ― Anaïs Nin

5. “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

6. “Anxiety’s like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you very far.”― Jodi Picoult

7. There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature. –Henry David Thoreau

8. What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow? – Thomas a Kempis

9. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill

10. “Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”– William James

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