Max Lucado Quotes

Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about your fretted roofs.

Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there, or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It's a split that tears you apart inside.

Thought is an errand boy, fear a mine of worries.

If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.

I have a tendency to freak myself out.

Fear and Guilt are the only enemies of man.

We are only troubled by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves, for they add to the state in which we are the passions of the state in which we are not.

It is not tricks of sense But the time's fright within me which distracts Least fancies into violence

I don't know what anxiety is like anymore.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

I just always had this feeling inside me of always being nervous and afraid of situations.

So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.

I felt nobody would understand what was going on in my mind.

I wake up every morning in a cold sweat, regardless of how well things went the day before. And put that I said that in a somewhat but not completely tongue-in-cheek way.

I've always been full of nervous energy, but I'm not really as happy as I seem.

Anxiety has afflicted me all my life.

Underneath our nice, friendly facades there is great unease. If I were to scratch below the surface of anyone I would find fear, pain, and anxiety running amok. We all have ways to cover them up. We overeat, over-drink, overwork; we watch too much television.

I think that what people imagine they're going through is much worse than what they are going through.

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

I very often wake up at two in the morning with my stomach going over. Sometimes it's difficult to work out why - it's all the things you've put to one side during the day.

When I've gone through those periods of depression or anxiety, it's almost like your body is telling you constantly with these panics that the world really is the terrible place that you think it is, and all the things you fear are true about yourself have to be true.

I may have a slightly paranoid nature, a fear of losing control of my life.

Almost everyone seems to worry about something, and yet, we rarely talk about worry as a problem. Maybe that is because worry is so integrated into the way we have come to live and be in the world that we don't even notice it.

I don't get hung up a lot on angst.

I don't know how to produce work if it's not something that's deeply scaring me or troubling me.