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90 Valentine's Day Quotes To Share With Anyone You Love

Say what you will about Valentine's Day, but we can't help feeling all warm and fuzzy as February 14 approaches. Whether your holiday celebration consists of a fancy gift and a standout meal with your one-and-only or something more low-key like Chinese takeout and a movie with your besties, we can all appreciate an extra dose of affection.

However you're choosing to celebrate the lovey-dovey holiday this year, we've rounded up 90 of our favorite Valentine's Day quotes about romance and relationships to give you all the inspiration you need for cards, gifts, and, the 'Gram of course. There are quotes on love and friendship from celebs, authors and more, ranging from oh-so-romantic excerpts to laugh-out-loud funny sayings. Share with your loved ones to show them how much you care or just to make them laugh. (Also, be sure to check out our other feel-good quotes on PureWow's Inspirational Quotes Pinterest board.)

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Romantic Valentine's Day Quotes

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1. "Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet." — Katharine Lee Bates

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2. "Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will." — Elaine Davis

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3. "All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name." — Andre Breton

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4. "l love her and that's the beginning and end of everything." — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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5. "Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold." — Zelda Fitzgerald

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6. "There's no substitute for a great love who says, 'No matter what's wrong with you, you're welcome at this table.'" — Tom Hanks

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7. "Valentine's Day is just another day to truly love like there is no tomorrow." — Roy A. Ngansop

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8. "Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze." — Elinor Glyn

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9. "To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return." — Madonna

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10. "You can't blame gravity for falling in love." ― Albert Einstein

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11. "You don't marry someone you can live with; you marry the person you cannot live without." — Cecelia Ahern

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12. "Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, only with what you are expecting to give—which is everything." — Katharine Hepburn

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13. "Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind." — William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

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14. "When you're lucky enough to meet your one person, then life takes a turn for the best. It can't get better than that." — John Krasinski

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15. "Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination." – Voltaire

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16. "If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever." ― Alfred Tennyson

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17. "Love is when you're committed to helping somebody with their life. Helping them to suffer less, helping them to manage their minds and their emotions." — Will Smith

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18. "Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back." – Plato

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19. "Love by giving and by taking. Give and be given." — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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20. "You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." ― Dr. Seuss

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21. "Love to me is someone telling me 'I want to be with you for the rest of my life, and if you needed me to, I'd jump out of a plane for you.'" — Jennifer Lopez

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22. "When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too." — Paulo Coelho

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23. "Love is an endless act of forgiveness." — Beyoncé

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24. "Love liberates. It doesn't just hold—that's ego." — Maya Angelou

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25. "There's no bad consequence to loving fully, with all your heart. You always gain by giving love." — Reese Witherspoon

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26. "I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature." ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

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27. "Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place." — Zora Neale Hurston

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28. "Love is a game that two can play and both win." ― Eva Gabor

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29. "When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you." — Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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30. "Love is an element. Like air to breathe, earth to stand on." ― Laini Taylor, Daughter Of Smoke & Bone

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31. "There are good ships. And wood ships. And ships that sail the sea. But the best ships are friendships. And may they always be." — Irish Proverb

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32. "A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love." — Max Muller

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33. "Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." — Robert Frost

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34. "There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved." — George Sand

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35. "Everything is clearer when you're in love." — John Lennon

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36. "Your flaws are perfect for the heart that's meant to love you." — Trent Shelton

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37. "The vulnerability of opening your heart fully and deeply to another is terrifying, but at a point in my fifties, I realized that I had to step up to the plate." — Jane Fonda

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38. "Love is the hardest habit to break and the most difficult to satisfy." — Drew Barrymore

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39. "The real love is the man who can thrill you just by kissing your head or smiling into your eyes or just by staring into space." — Marilyn Monroe

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40. "Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do." — David Wilkerson

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41. "Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile." — Franklin P. Jones

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42. "You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love in spite of the fact that they're not." — Jodi Picoult

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43. "There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment." — Sarah Dessen

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44. "Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning." — Paulo Coelho 45. "But love, I've come to understand, is more than mumbling three words before bedtime." — Nicholas Sparks, The Wedding

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46. "The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." — Nat King Cole 47. "There are never enough I Love You's." — Lenny Bruce 48. "Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead." — Oscar Wilde

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49. "Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence." — Vincent van Gogh

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50. "Love is the beauty of the soul." — Saint Augustine

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51. "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." — Lao Tzu

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52. "Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction." ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars 53. "Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." — Aristotle

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54. "I fall in love with myself, and I want someone to share it with me. I want someone to share me, with me." — Eartha Kitt 55. "Love is the greatest refreshment in life." — Pablo Picasso

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56. "You can't measure love by time put in, but the weight of those moments. Some in life are light, like a touch. Others, you can't help but stagger beneath." ― Sarah Dessen, Once And For All 57. "Love is the poetry of the senses." — Honoré de Balzac

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58. "A simple 'I love you' means more than money." — Frank Sinatra, "Tell Her" 59. "At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet." — Plato

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60. "If grass can grow through cement, love can find you every time." — Cher

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61. "True love is like little roses, sweet, fragrant in small doses." — Ana Claudia Antunes, Pierrot & Columbine

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62. "To love at all is to be vulnerable." — C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves Valentine's Day Quotes From Movies & TV

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63. "Some people are worth melting for." – Olaf, Frozen

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64. "You have bewitched me body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you." – Mr. Darcy, Pride and Prejudice

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65. "When I look at you, I can feel it. I look at you, and I'm home." – Dory, Finding Nemo

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66. "You and I are meant to be together. Period. The end. Cue happy-ending music." — Dawson Leery, Dawson's Creek 67. "I'm looking for love. Real love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can't-live-without-each-other love." — Carrie Bradshaw 68. "It's fate. It's destiny. We both like burritos." — Seth Cohen, The O.C.

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69. "The single most extraordinary thing I've ever done with my life is fall in love with you." — Beth Pearson, This Is Us

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70. "Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it." ― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk To Remember

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71. "I wish I knew how to quit you." — Brokeback Mountain

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72. "I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once." — John Green, The Fault In Our Stars Valentine's Day Quotes About Friendship

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73. "I found out what the secret to life is: friends. Best friends." — Ninny Threadgoode, Fried Green Tomatoes

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74. "Two things you will never have to chase: true friends and true love." – Mandy Hale

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75. "Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good times and bad. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses." — Ann Landers

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76. "If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love." — Princess Diana

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77. "Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around." — Bob Marley

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78. "When you're comfortable with someone you love, the silence is the best." — Britney Spears

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79. "If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love." — Maya Angelou

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80. "They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything." — Bil Keane 81. "Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world." — Lucille Ball Funny Valentine's Day Quotes 82. "All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt." — Charles Schulz

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83. "Before you marry a person you should first make them use a computer with slow internet to see who they really are." — Will Ferrell

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84. "Valentine's Day is one of those things that if I have a boyfriend, I love it and I think it's the greatest thing in the world. And if I'm single, I just wish the day never existed." — Nina Dobrev

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85. "I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life." — Rita Rudner

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86. "I used to think this day was a conspiracy of chocolatiers and florists, but I realize that taking a day out of our busy lives to celebrate the love in our lives is so important and should be every day." — Ian Somerhalder

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87. "True love is singing karaoke 'Under Pressure' and letting the other person sing the Freddie Mercury part." — Mindy Kaling 88. "Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates." — Fernando Pessoa

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89. "We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love." — Robert Fulghum

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90. "Without Valentine's Day, February would be…well, January." — Jim Gaffigan

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80 Anxiety Quotes To Help Calm Your Mind On Tough Days

When it feels like your anxiety is getting the best of you — whether because your kids are having trouble at school or you have a major work project looming or your parents' health is suffering (it's always something, isn't it?!) — sometimes it's helpful to reach for a few calming words. It's a way to shift your mind away from whatever is going on at the moment, and instead on a helpful reminder, like Robert Tew's comforting quote: "Trust yourself. You've survived a lot, and you'll survive whatever is coming." Or when Oprah Winfrey said, "Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment." 

Ahead, this collection of succinct and powerful quotes can be a lifeline for when you are navigating the storms of anxiety. Among these 80 quotes, you'll find nuggets of wisdom from legendary figures like Maya Angelou and Mark Twain, as well as adages from contemporary voices like Eckhart Tolle and Judy Blume. 

As Albert Einstein once said, "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving." And move, you will. As you go through these inspirational quotes, let them remind you that even in the throes of anxiety, brighter days are ahead. To get in a better frame of mind, read them all, or simply jump ahead to the category of quotes that's most relevant to you.

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"As long as you are breathing, there is more right with you than wrong with you, no matter what is wrong." ― Jon Kabat-Zinn 

"Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges. So relax." ― Bryant McGill

"Trust yourself. You've survived a lot, and you'll survive whatever is coming." ― Robert Tew

"Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths." ― C.H. Spurgeon

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving." — Albert Einstein

"I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened."― Mark Twain

"Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight." ― Benjamin Franklin

"For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business." ― T.S. Eliot

"There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them." ― Sylvia Plath

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." ― Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want." ― F. Scott Fitzgerald

"If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward." ― Martin Luther King Jr.

 "The best use of creativity is imagination. The worst use of creativity is anxiety."  ― Deepak Chopra

"Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment." — Oprah Winfrey

"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them." — Maya Angelou

Quotes about overcoming anxiety

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do." — Eleanor Roosevelt

"Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith." ― Henry Ward Beecher

"Let fear be a counselor and not a jailer." ― Tony Robbins

"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

"Present fears are less than horrible imaginings." ― William Shakespeare

"You don't have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you." ― Dan Millman

"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world — not even our troubles." — Charlie Chaplin

"Actually spending ten minutes clearing off one shelf is better than fantasizing about spending a weekend cleaning out the basement." — Gretchen Rubin

"Do not fight your negative emotions. Observe and befriend them." — Haemin Sunim

"We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us." — Joseph Campbell

"Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love." — Brené Brown

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin." ― Mother Teresa

"You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf." Jon Kabat-Zinn

"Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it." ― Dorothy M. Neddermeyer

"Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest taken between two deep breaths." ― Etty Hillesum

"If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be." ― Yogi Berra

"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

"I tend to get pretty depressed and I have some issues with anxiety and things like that...For me, it's more psychological. Exercise is a means of expelling those demons." — Ryan Reynolds

 "Rule No. 1 is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule No. 2 is, it's all small stuff." ― Robert Eliot

 "Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create." ― Roy T. Bennett

 "Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again." ― Nelson Mandela

"No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear." ― Greg Kincaid

"Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is." ― Ernest Hemingway

"Everything you want is on the other side of fear." ― Jack Canfield

"Breathe, darling. This is just a chapter. It's not your whole story." ― S.C. Lourie

"A problem is a chance for you to do your best." ― Duke Ellington

"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

"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you." — Anne Lamott

"Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future." ― Deepak Chopra

"This life is mine alone. So I have stopped asking people for directions to places they've never been." ― Glennon Doyle

Quotes about living with anxiety

"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." ― Anais Nin

 "Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe." ― Mark Twain

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

"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself." ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We tend to think that the future happens later, but we're creating it in our minds every day." ― Lori Gottlieb

"Feelings don't try to kill you, even the painful ones. Anxiety is a feeling grown too large. A feeling grown aggressive and dangerous. You're responsible for its consequences, you're responsible for treating it. But...You're not responsible for causing it. You're not morally at fault for it. No more than you would be for a tumor." ― Patrick Ness

"Mattie sat at the table, obsessing, orbiting around herself. She was sick of her worried, hostile mind. It would have killed her long before, she felt, if it hadn't needed the transportation." — Anne Lamott

"You can't just take Tylenol to deal with anxiety. Being able to be level with people, being honest about your problem — that is a huge help." —  Royce White

"Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it—just as we have learned to live with storms." ― Paulo Coelho

 "You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore." ― William Faulkner

Deep anxiety quotes

"Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry — all forms of fear — are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. ― Eckhart Tolle

"The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness." ― Alain de Botton

"In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived. How well we have loved. How well we have learned to let go." — Jack Kornfield

"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom." ― Søren Kierkegaard

"Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer." ― William S. Burroughs

"I am waiting for my case to come up / and I am waiting / for a rebirth of wonder."  ― Lawrence Ferlinghetti

"He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears." ― Michel de Montaigne

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar."― Thich Nhat Hanh

 "If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath." ― Amit Ray

 "Anxiety is a living body / Poised beside us like a shadow. / It is the last creature standing, / The only beast who loves us / Enough to stay." ― Amanda Gorman

"There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them." ― Jo Walton

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." ―  Frank Herbert

 "It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace." ― Chuck Palahniuk

"The only reality is 'anxiety' in the whole chain of beings. To the man lost in the world and its diversions this anxiety is a brief, fleeting fear. But if that fear becomes conscious of itself, it becomes anguish, the perpetual climate of the lucid man "in whom existence is concentrated." ― Albert Camus

"Each of us must confront our own fears, must come face to face with them. How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives. To experience adventure or to be limited by the fear of it." ― Judy Blume

Funny anxiety quotes

"There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full." ― Henry Kissinger

 "Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday." ― Dale Carnegie

"For fast-acting relief, try slowing down." ― Lily Tomlin

"The time to relax is when you don't have time for it." ― Sydney J. Harris

"We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie." ― David Mamet

"Smile, it's free therapy." — Douglas Horton

"To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone." — Reba McEntire

"Thankfully, perseverance is a great substitute for talent." — Steve Martin

"My ability to turn good news into anxiety is rivaled only by my ability to turn anxiety into chin acne." ― Tina Fey

 "When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'" ― Sydney J. Harris

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