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Medically reviewed by Rachel Goldman, PhD, FTOSMedically reviewed by Rachel Goldman, PhD, FTOS

Whether it's major national issues, like the upcoming Presidential election, or situations closer to home, like starting college in the fall, it seems like there's always something we could be anxious about. And that anxiety can impact our mind and body — potentially leading to even more anxiety.

"Physically, anxiety can trigger symptoms like a rapid heartbeat, sweating, shaking, and difficulty breathing. Those with anxiety often feel tense, restless, and on edge, which can interfere with their ability to focus or get a good night's sleep," explains Catherine Nobile, PsyD, New York psychologist and director of Nobile Psychology. "These thoughts and emotions are intense, and their persistent nature can significantly affect their daily lives, making it challenging to participate in regular activities or find joy in moments that others might find ordinary," she adds.

Takeaway

One way to bring levity and joy in the midst of feeling anxious is through humor. Research shows that laughter can help lessen feelings of worry and stress. Many writers, entertainers, and historical figures know this well, and often share words of wisdom from life experiences that bring just the chuckle that we need.

"Humor can be an effective way to manage anxiety, offering both immediate comfort and lasting advantages," notes Dr. Nobile. "When a person laughs, it prompts the release of endorphins, the body's natural mood elevators, helping to alleviate stress and promote a sense of happiness. Laughter also reduces the levels of cortisol, a hormone associated with stress, thereby mitigating the physical symptoms of anxiety."

We take a look at 20 quotes designed to bring a smile to your face and make your load feel lighter during times of stress and anxiety. So, sit back, take a deep breath, and in the words of Louis Armstrong, "leave your worries on the doorstep."

Related: How to Deal With Crippling Anxiety

20 Quotes About Anxiety to Keep You Smiling

The Bible says in Proverbs that a merry heart does good like medicine. These quotes are sure to make you feel better.

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

— Anne Lamott

2.  "Be obscure clearly."

-  E. B. White

3.   "Cure for an obsession: get another one."

-  Mason Cooley

4.     "Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."

- Elbert Hubbard 

5.    "I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened."

-   Mark Twain

6.    "I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time."

-  Charles M. Schulz

7.    "I just give myself permission to suck…I find this hugely liberating."

— John Green

8.    "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."

-Douglas Adams 

9.    "I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back."

-  Richard Lewis

10. "If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything."

- William Lyon Phelps

11. "I'm for whatever gets you through the night."

- Frank Sinatra

12. "Life is hard. After all, it kills you."

-  Katharine Hepburn

13. "My life needs editing."

- Mort Sahl 

14. "One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening."

-  Franklin P. Jones

15. "Reality continues to ruin my life."

-  Bill Watterson

16. "The next time you have a thought... Let it go."

-  Ron White

17. "The time to relax is when you don't have time for it."

— Sydney J. Harris

18. "There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full."

– Henry Kissinger https://www.Brainyquote.Com/quotes/henry_kissinger_100085

19. "We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie."

— David Mamet, "Boston Marriage"

20. "Worry is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do but never gets you anywhere."

–  Erma Bombeck

Related: The Health Benefits of Humor and Laughter

Other Ways to Calm an Anxious Mind

More than a third of all adults in the United States deal with some sort of anxiety disorder in their lifetime. Along with humor, additional strategies can help you cope with the symptoms that anxiety brings.

Try spending time in nature. Connecting with nature can help reduce stress and anxiety levels. Go for a nice walk, sit on the back deck, or read a book on the porch. And relax.

Get some exercise. "Incorporate exercise into your daily routine, whether it's walking, jogging, practicing yoga, or any other physical activity you enjoy. Exercise releases endorphins, promotes better sleep, and serves as a healthy distraction from anxious thoughts," states Dr. Nobile.

Practice meditation, spend time in prayer, or employ mindfulness techniques. Incorporating an activity that takes the focus off of you and puts it onto a calming presence or a higher power can be beneficial.

Seek professional help. A therapist can help you pinpoint the cause of your anxiety, and work with you on a treatment plan to help you manage your symptoms.

Put the quotes we shared to work for you. Place a calendar full of humorous quotes by your computer. Put a framed quote on your wall. Make a series of quotes for a screensaver for your phone. Allow the quotes to give you a dose of laughter when you need it. "Keeping these quotes one finds can be therapeutic and a tool to reference when anxiety takes hold," says Tasha M. Brown, PhD, founder of TMB Psych Services.

Ultimately, humor can help change your focus, divert your attention from stressful issues, and even have a healing impact.

"Humor can often shift your perspective and help to alleviate feelings of anxiety. Humorous quotes can also challenge negative thinking patterns … reminding you that excessively worrying can be counterproductive. Humor can be liberating," Dr. Brown concludes.

Related: Laughter as a Coping Mechanism

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50 Iconic Shakespeare Quotes About Love

Has there ever lived a more romantic writer than William Shakespeare? When it came to words of love, no one did it better than the Bard. Looking for an iconic line to add to your wedding vows, anniversary card, or love letter? Look no further than these 50 iconic Shakespeare quotes about love.

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate.-Sonnet 18 Doubt that the stars are fire,Doubt that the sun doth move his aides,Doubt truth to be a liar,But never doubt I love.-Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2 My bounty is as boundless as the sea,My love as deep. The more I give to thee,The more I have, for both are infinite.-Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2 The course of true love never did run smooth.-A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 1, Scene 1 Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds,Or bends with the remover to remove:O no! It is an ever-fixed markThat looks on tempests and is never shaken.-Sonnet 116 Love goes by haps;Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.-Much Ado About Nothing, Act 3, Scene 2 I do love nothing in the world so well as you-is not that strange?-Much Ado About Nothing, Act 4, Scene 1 If music be the food of love, play on.Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,The appetite may sicken and so die.-Twelfth Night, Act 1, Scene 1 Speak low, if you speak love.-Much Ado About Nothing, Act 2, Scene 1The sight of lovers feedeth those in love.-As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 4 Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?-As You Like It, Act 3, Scene 5 There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned.-Antony and Cleopatra, Act 1, Scene 1 She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed.She is woman, and therefore to be won.-Henry VI Part 1, Act 5, Scene 2 A heart to love, and in that heartCourage, to make's love known.-Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 3 I would not wish any companion in the world but you.-The Tempest, Act 3, Scene 1 Love is like a child,That longs for everything it can come by.-The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act 3, Scene 1 So are you to my thoughts as food to life,Or as sweet-seasoned showers are to the ground.-Sonnet 75 A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind.A lover's ear will hear the lowest sound,When the suspicious head of theft is stopped.Love's feeling is more soft and sensibleThan are the tender horns of cockled snails.And when love speaks, the voice of all the godsMake heaven drowsy with the harmony.-Love's Labor's Lost, Act 4, Scene 3 Love is blind, and lovers cannot see,The pretty follies that themselves commit.-The Merchant of Venice, Act 2, Scene 6 Love sought, is good;But given unsought, is better.-Twelfth Night, Act 3, Scene 1 Thee will I love, and with thee lead my life.-The Comedy of Errors, Act 3, Scene 2 When you depart from me,Sorrow abides and happiness takes his leave.-Much Ado About Nothing, Act 1, Scene 1 What is love? 'Tis not hereafter:Present mirth hath present laughter.-Twelfth Night, Act 2, Scene 3 Come what sorrow can,It cannot countervail the exchange of joy,That one short minute gives me in her sight.-Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 6 Her passions are made of nothingBut the finest part of pure love.-Anotony & Cleopatra, Act 3, Scene 5 She loved me for the dangers I had passed,And I loved her that she did pity them.-Othello, Act 1, Scene 3 His unkindness may defeat my life,But never taint my love.-Othello, Act 4, Scene 2 When you do dance, I wish youA wave o' th' sea, that you might ever doNothing but that.-The Winter's Tale, Act 4, Scene 4 Love is a smoke rais'd with the fume of sighs;Being purg'd, a fire sparkling in a lover's eyes;Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears:What is it else? A madness most discreet,A choking gall and a preserving sweet.-Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Scene 1 Thy sweet love remembered such wealth bringsThat then I scorn to change my state with kings.-Sonnet 29 I love you more than words can wield the matter;Dearer than eyesight, space and liberty.-King Lear, Act 1, Scene 1 Love is begun by time,And time qualifies the spark and fire of it.-Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 7 Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind,And therefore is winged cupid painted blind.-A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 1, Scene 1 If thou rememb'rest not the slightest follyThat ever love did make thee run into,Thou has not loved.-As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 3 What is light, if Sylvia be not seen?What is joy if Sylvia be not by?-The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act 3, Scene 1 Men have died from time to time,And worms have eaten them,But not for love.-As You Like It, Act 4, Scene 1 To be wise and love,Exceeds man's might-Troilus & Cressida, Act 3, Scene 2 Hear my soul speak:The very instant that I saw you, didMy heart fly to your service.-The Tempest, Act 3, Scene 1 This bud of love by summer's ripening breath,May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.-Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 1 Men's vows are women's traitors.-Cymbeline, Act 3, Scene 4 Oh, how this spring of love resembleth,The uncertain glory of an April day,Which now shows all beauty of the Sun,And by and by a cloud takes all away.-The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act 1, Scene 3 Is this the generation of love?Hot blood, hot thoughts and hot deeds?Why, they are vipers.Is love a generation of vipers?-Troilus & Cressida, Act 3, Scene 1 They are in the very wrath of love,And they will go together.Clubs cannot part them.-As You Like It, Act 5, Scene 2 Lovers ever run before the clock.-The Merchant of Venice, Act 2, Scene 6 A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee.All's Well That Ends Well, Act 4, Scene 2 Alas, that love, so gentle in his view,Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof.-Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Scene 1 I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster.-Much Ado About Nothing, Act 2, Scene 3 Mistress, you know yourself, down on your knees,And thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.-As You Like It, Act 3, Scene 5 For where thou art, there is the world itself,And where thou art not, desolation.-Henry VI Part 2, Act 3, Scene 2 I know no ways to mince it in love,But directly to say 'I love you'.-Henry V, Act 5, Scene 2

Andy Murray In Quotes

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Ten quotes from Andy Murray after the British tennis star confirmed his retirement on Tuesday:

"I can cry like Roger, it's just a shame I can't play like him."

-- After losing the 2010 Australian Open final to Roger Federer who himself had wept on the same Rod Laver Arena Court 12 months earlier after losing the final to Rafael Nadal.

"Anyone but England."

-- Proud Scotsman Murray when asked who he'd be supporting at the 2006 World Cup. Murray always insisted his comment was a joke.

"I learnt a lot from it, as I realised the guys from the press are not your friends, and you can't joke with them about stuff like that. It's not worth the hassle."

-- On lessons learned from his England football comment.

"When I was serving for the match, there was a sense of how big a moment that is in British tennis history. It's great to have finally done it."

-- After beating Novak Djokovic to win the 2012 US Open, becoming the first British man to win a Grand Slam title since Fred Perry in 1936.

"I understand how much everyone wanted to see a British winner at Wimbledon and I hope everyone enjoyed it. That last game, my head was kind of everywhere. That last game will be the toughest game I'll play in my career, ever."

-- On ending Britain's 77-year wait for a Wimbledon men's champion in 2013.

"I feel that she was harshly judged by a lot of people, purely because she was a woman."

-- On his decision, widely derided at the time, to hire former women's world number one Amelie Mauresmo as his coach.

"Oh my God, you'll be absolutely terrible."

-- His response to his mother Judy when she told him she would be taking part in a TV ballroom dancing show.

"Contrary to my image, I do have a sense of humour."

-- Murray countering perceptions that he is dour and dull.

"To be honest, I think bananas are a pathetic fruit."

-- His thoughts on a tennis player's standard food between games.

"I don't want a flashy car, just something that would allow me to stop using the Tube. And it would be good not to have to rely on my mum all the time, particularly when I have to listen to her singing in her car."

-- On learning to drive and buying his first car.

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