Social Anxiety: A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work. ~John Lubbock

Social Anxiety: A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. ~Oscar Wilde infj

Social Anxiety: A hundredload of worry will not pay an ounce of debt. ~George Herbert

Social Anxiety: A lot of what passes for depression these days is nothing more than a body saying that it needs work. ~Geoffrey Norman

Social Anxiety: A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent. ~Jerome Lawrence

Social Anxiety: A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer. ~Thomas Carlyle, letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

Social Anxiety: A very sensitive person in this stupid world is bound to become mad.... Only meditation can save him from becoming mad. ~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh #hsp

Social Anxiety: All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling. ~Blaise Pascal #infj

Social Anxiety: All too frequently, anxiety crushes not only your spirit and your potential, but your ability to take care of your mind and body. ~Jonathan Davidson and Henry Dreher

Social Anxiety: Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained. ~Arthur Somers Roche

Social Anxiety: Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours. ~Richard Bach

Social Anxiety: As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey. ~Thomas A. Edison

Social Anxiety: As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see. ~Julius Caesar

Social Anxiety: Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self esteem, first make sure you are not, in fact, just surrounded by [@$$holes]. ~Notorious d.e.b., @debihope

Social Anxiety: Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night. ~Author Unknown

Social Anxiety: Concentrating to within an inch of your life on the pre-flight safety briefing, to compensate for those ignoring it. ~Rob Temple

Social Anxiety: Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow. ~Mary Anne Radmacher

Social Anxiety: Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. ~Dan Rather

Social Anxiety: Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. ~George Smith Patton

Social Anxiety: Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. ~Mark Twain

Social Anxiety: Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. ~Raymond Lindquist

Social Anxiety: Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living. ~Douglas Malloch

Social Anxiety: Do not be afraid of tomorrow, for God is already there. ~Author Unknown

Social Anxiety: Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Social Anxiety: Don't let anyone steal your dream. It's your dream, not theirs. ~Dan Zadra

Social Anxiety: Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway. ~Mary C. Crowley

Social Anxiety: Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Social Anxiety: Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day. ~Brendan Francis

Social Anxiety: Everything is too real, for an INFJ. Only fantasy — with its soft edges and magical healing creatures and sparkling beauty and plush hugs and golden-hour radiance and floral-everywheres and giddy, bouncing, perpetual youth of spirit — is tolerable. ~Terri Guillemets

Social Anxiety: Face what you think you believe and you will be surprised. ~William Hale White

Social Anxiety: Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it. ~Donald Dowes

Social Anxiety: Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow. ~Philip Gulley

Social Anxiety: Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small. ~Ruth Gendler

Social Anxiety: Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop. ~Usman B. Asif

Social Anxiety: Fear is faith that it won't work out. ~Sister Mary Tricky

Social Anxiety: Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself. ~Samuel Butler

Social Anxiety: Fear is the highest fence. ~Dudley Nichols

Social Anxiety: Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance. ~Arnold Glasow

Social Anxiety: Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. ~Shirley Maclaine

Social Anxiety: Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ~German Proverb

Social Anxiety: Fear: False Evidence Appearing Real. ~Author Unknown

Social Anxiety: Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death. ~Author Unknown

Social Anxiety: Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Social Anxiety: For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe. ~Author Unknown #infj

Social Anxiety: For sensitive human beings... a hole in the ego can be worse than a hole in the heart. ~Norman Mailer, address at Hopwood Awards, University of Michigan, April 1984 #criticism #hsp #infj

Social Anxiety: For the INFJ, all of reality is surreal. ~Terri Guillemets

Social Anxiety: For those uneasy with the world, solitude is the only guarantee of confidence. ~Terri Guillemets

Social Anxiety: Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen. ~Pliny the Younger

Social Anxiety: He dare not come in company, for here he should be misused, disgraced, overshoot himself in gesture or speeches or be sick; he thinks everyman observes him. ~Richard Burton

Social Anxiety: He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself... ~George Eliot

Social Anxiety: He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears. ~Montaigne

Social Anxiety: He who fears something gives it power over him. ~Moorish Proverb

Social Anxiety: Heavy thoughts bring on physical maladies; when the soul is oppressed so is the body. ~Martin Luther

Social Anxiety: I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship. ~Louisa May Alcott

Social Anxiety: I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. "Never worry about your heart till it stops beating." ~E.B. White

Social Anxiety: I become daily more and more convinced that my nerve-trouble is to a great extent nurtured, if not entirely caused, by my solitary habits. I have practically no other pleasure now than through my own head, which is continually busy. ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Social Anxiety: I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. ~Wendell Berry

Social Anxiety: I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor. ~D.H. Lawrence

Social Anxiety: I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change.... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ~Erica Jong

Social Anxiety: I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal - and soon they'll forget my number. ~Edith Armstrong

Social Anxiety: I like people. I just prefer it when they're not around.

Social Anxiety: I love mankind… it's I can't stand!! ~Charles M. Schulz

Social Anxiety: I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. ~Henry David Thoreau

Social Anxiety: I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.... My hemmings and hawings over the telephone cause long-distance callers to switch from their native English to pathetic French. At parties, if I attempt to entertain people with a good story, I have to go back to every other sentence for oral erasures and inserts.... In these circumstances nobody should ask me to submit to an interview if by "interview" a chat between two normal human beings is implied. ~Vladimir Nabokov, 1973, Foreword

Social Anxiety: I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unseasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night. ~James Thurber

Social Anxiety: I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a all the way. ~Henry David Thoreau

Social Anxiety: I'm not a recluse - I'm just playing hard-to-get with society. ~Author Unknown #infj

Social Anxiety: I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time. ~Charles Schulz

Social Anxiety: If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all thinking, damages his personality and makes him a landlord to a ghost. ~Lloyd Douglas

Social Anxiety: If I could be always alone with God, entirely indifferent about the opinions of men... I should reach a state to which I aspire, but have not yet attained. ~Henry Martyn

Social Anxiety: If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones. ~Don Herold

Social Anxiety: If my devils are to leave me, I am afraid my angels will take flight as well. ~Rainer Maria Rilke, on leaving psychotherapy

Social Anxiety: If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being? ~Aleksander Solzhenitsyn

Social Anxiety: If things go wrong, don't go with them. ~Roger Babson

Social Anxiety: If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. ~Thomas Alva Edison

Social Anxiety: If you are physically sick, you can elicit the interest of a battery of physicians; but if you are mentally sick, you are lucky if the janitor comes around. ~Martin H. Fischer

Social Anxiety: If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep. ~Dale Carnegie

Social Anxiety: If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground. ~Henrik Ibsen

Social Anxiety: If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor. ~Sebastien-Roch Nicolas

Social Anxiety: If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. ~Author Unknown

Social Anxiety: If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you. ~Calvin Coolidge

Social Anxiety: If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it. ~Toni Morrison

Social Anxiety: If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times. ~Dean Smith

Social Anxiety: If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today. ~E. Joseph Cossman

Social Anxiety: In solitude, where we are least alone. ~George Gordon, Lord Byron

Social Anxiety: It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down. ~George MacDonald

Social Anxiety: It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. ~Edmund Hillary

Social Anxiety: It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts. ~K.T. Jong

Social Anxiety: It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears. ~Ovid

Social Anxiety: It only seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying. ~Lucy Maud Montgomery

Social Anxiety: It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes. ~Sally Field

Social Anxiety: It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. ~Sally Kempton

Social Anxiety: It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not. ~Attributed to Hanoch McCarty

Social Anxiety: Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves. ~William Hazlitt

Social Anxiety: Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers. ~Mignon McLaughlin

Social Anxiety: Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Social Anxiety: Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. ~Anaïs Nin

Social Anxiety: Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality. ~Mignon McLaughlin

Social Anxiety: Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head. ~Mignon McLaughlin

Social Anxiety: Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at. ~Author unknown

Social Anxiety: Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them. ~Brendan Francis

Social Anxiety: Many things pain me that only vex other people. ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Social Anxiety: Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves. ~Gene Fowler

Social Anxiety: Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons but one out of one. ~William Menninger

Social Anxiety: My generation is not strong. My grandfather fought in World War II. I had a panic attack during the series finale of Breaking Bad. ~Matt Donaher

Social Anxiety: My heart is glass, daily shattered... ~Terri Guillemets #hsp

Social Anxiety: My hypochondria is in the last resort a knack of extracting, for personal application, the greatest possible amount of venom from any and every incident of life, no matter what it may be. ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Social Anxiety: My imagination shied, as horses do, and ran away with me. This best expresses my condition in the way of sentiment. ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Social Anxiety: Nerves and butterflies are fine - they're a physical sign that you're mentally ready and eager. You have to get the butterflies to fly in formation, that's the trick. ~Steve Bull

Social Anxiety: Nerves provide me with energy. They work for me. It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that I get worried. ~Mike Nichols

Social Anxiety: Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have. ~Edward Everett Hale

Social Anxiety: No human thing is of serious importance. ~Plato

Social Anxiety: No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

Social Anxiety: No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage. ~Henry S. Haskins

Social Anxiety: No one is moved to act, or resolves to speak a single word, who does not hope by means of this action or word to release anxiety from his spirit. ~Ali ibn-Hazm

Social Anxiety: No one understands yet there's hope, then finally one day you find one who does and no matter what, life will always be good thereafter. ~Terri Guillemets #infj

Social Anxiety: Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. ~Albert Camus

Social Anxiety: Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action. ~Walter Anderson

Social Anxiety: Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so. ~Francois VI de la Rochefoucault

Social Anxiety: Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are! ~Charles Dickens #hsp #infj

Social Anxiety: Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else. ~Mignon McLaughlin

Social Anxiety: One of my sensory problems was hearing sensitivity, where certain loud noises, such as a school bell, hurt my ears. It sounded like a dentist drill going through my ears. ~Temple Grandin #hsp

Social Anxiety: One of the most remarkable traits of my character is without doubt the extraordinary superstition which makes me see signs in every conceivable affair, and in a single day turn hundreds of things into an oracle.... Every crawling insect provides me with an answer to some question or other concerning my fate.... But the tendency is perhaps rooted in human nature, and has only in my case taken a monstrous form... ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Social Anxiety: One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. ~Dale Carnegie

Social Anxiety: Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be. ~John Dryden

Social Anxiety: Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality. ~Les Brown

Social Anxiety: Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. ~Marianne Williamson

Social Anxiety: Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. ~William Shakespeare

Social Anxiety: Panic at the thought of doing a thing is a challenge to do it. ~Henry S. Haskins

Social Anxiety: Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination. ~Christian Nevell Bovee

Social Anxiety: Panicking in a sandwich shop and allowing a distressingly bizarre combination of fillings to occur. ~Rob Temple

Social Anxiety: People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet. ~Sa'Di

Social Anxiety: People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them. ~George Bernard Shaw

Social Anxiety: People gather bundles of sticks to build bridges they never cross. ~Author Unknown

Social Anxiety: People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding. ~Wilhelm Stekel #infj

Social Anxiety: Pile up too many tomorrows and you'll find that you've collected nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays.

Social Anxiety: Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. ~Samuel Johnson

Social Anxiety: Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. ~Theodore N. Vail

Social Anxiety: Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue. ~Andre Gide

Social Anxiety: Saying your meal was lovely, despite a slight fear it might kill you in the night. ~Rob Temple

Social Anxiety: Shutting yourself in the wardrobe until the window cleaner has finished and left. ~Rob Temple

Social Anxiety: Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. ~Andre Dubus

Social Anxiety: Some days, we're just looking for a soft place to land. ~Dr. SunWolf #hsp #infj

Social Anxiety: Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist. ~Edgar Watson Howe

Social Anxiety: Some patients I see are actually draining into their bodies the diseased thoughts of their minds. ~Zacharty Bercovitz

Social Anxiety: Some people are so sensitive they feel snubbed if an epidemic overlooks them. ~Frank Hubbard

Social Anxiety: Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face. ~Nelson DeMille

Social Anxiety: Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Social Anxiety: Sometimes the biggest act of courage is a small one. ~Lauren Raffo

Social Anxiety: Suspecting you've been overcharged, so making sure to frown as you insert your debit card and pay in full. ~Rob Temple

Social Anxiety: Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it. ~Albert Smith

Social Anxiety: The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. ~Abraham Maslow

Social Anxiety: The autopsy will find coloured flowers in my grey matter, still-beating poetry in my heart, unspent ink in every organ, blood saturated with love, bones mineral'd by life's rough days, muscles fibered by courage and fear intertwined, and a slightly crushed but glittering soul. ~Terri Guillemets

Social Anxiety: The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs. ~Charles de Gaulle #infj

Social Anxiety: The conversation at dinner had been so heated that by the end of it Mrs. Miniver had developed mental, moral, and physical indigestion..... [F]rom that moment on she resigned herself to a headache, and got it. ~Jan Struther

Social Anxiety: The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all. ~Mignon McLaughlin

Social Anxiety: The future is called "perhaps," which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you. ~Tennessee Williams

Social Anxiety: The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. ~Elbert Hubbard

Social Anxiety: The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. ~Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

Social Anxiety: The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued. ~Mignon McLaughlin

Social Anxiety: The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have to worry about anymore. ~Mignon McLaughlin

Social Anxiety: The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. ~Mignon McLaughlin

Social Anxiety: The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. ~Ernest Hemingway #infj

Social Anxiety: The shy and the extroverted have this in common - that they both fancy they are the center of attention. ~Robert Brault

Social Anxiety: The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to forgive yourself for all those wasted years. ~Mignon McLaughlin

Social Anxiety: The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid. ~Lady Bird Johnson

Social Anxiety: The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others. ~Sonya Friedman

Social Anxiety: There are more than 7 billion people on Earth. Of those, 20% are born with highly refined nervous systems that influence many aspects of their personality and worldview. 62 million Americans - 1.4 billion people worldwide - process things more deeply.... I believe our nervous systems have been wired for us to bring forth a different kind of leading, and a different kind of living - a radical departure from the rude, crude, violent, mind-numbing ways that have dominated our norms, despite them being so ecologically and psychologically destructive. I believe highly sensitive people are neurologically wired to respond to our planet's call - from business to biosphere - to step forward and bring forth many missing virtues from our culture... tenderness, compassion, empathy, benevolence, collaboration, inspiration, joy... virtues that have been confused for weakness, but are actually needed in every realm of our lives. ~Erika Harris #hsp

Social Anxiety: There are more things, Lucilius, that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality. ~Seneca

Social Anxiety: There are offences given and offences not given but taken. ~Izaak Walton

Social Anxiety: There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Social Anxiety: There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything. ~Vauvenargues

Social Anxiety: There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry... Yesterday and Tomorrow. ~Robert Jones Burdette

Social Anxiety: There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them. ~Andre Gide

Social Anxiety: There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear. ~George S. Patton

Social Anxiety: There is much in the world to make us afraid. There is much more in our faith to make us unafraid. ~Frederick W. Cropp

Social Anxiety: They need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be at peace unless they can latch on to an established and proven worry and having once found it they assume facial expressions to fit and go with it, which is, you see, unhappiness, and all the time it all flies by them and they know it and that too worries them no end. ~Jack Kerouac

Social Anxiety: To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another. ~Katherine Paterson

Social Anxiety: To lead by example is difficult when you're a follower of fear. ~T.A. Sachs

Social Anxiety: Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday. ~Author Unknown

Social Anxiety: Troubles are a lot like people - they grow bigger if you nurse them. ~Author Unknown

Social Anxiety: Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weights you down. ~Toni Morrison

Social Anxiety: We are always getting ready to live but never living. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Social Anxiety: We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us. ~John Lancaster Spalding

Social Anxiety: We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives. ~Lewis Thomas

Social Anxiety: We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it. ~John Newton

Social Anxiety: We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow. ~Fulton Oursler

Social Anxiety: We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic. ~Cullen Hightower

Social Anxiety: We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies. ~Roderick Thorp

Social Anxiety: We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart... and we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together.... I think that at least part of the answer lies in solitude. ~Helen Hayes #infj

Social Anxiety: We undervalue, I think, the courage of simple, everyday civility. What do we know of another person's day, of their worries and anxieties, of how deep into their innermost resources they had to reach for that gracious smile, that pleasant hello. ~Robert Brault

Social Anxiety: What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? ~Robert H. Schuller

Social Anxiety: What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ~Henry Stanley Haskins

Social Anxiety: When he is in the room with other persons, speech stops, as if there were a corpse in the apartment. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Social Anxiety: When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future. When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past. ~Author Unknown

Social Anxiety: When I really worry about something, I don't just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don't go. I'm too worried to go. I don't want to interrupt my worrying to go. ~J.D. Salinger

Social Anxiety: When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come. ~Joseph Joubert

Social Anxiety: When the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, it may be that they take better care of it there. ~Cecil Selig

Social Anxiety: When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest. ~Antonio Porchia

Social Anxiety: When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. ~African Proverb

Social Anxiety: When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger. ~Mark Rutherford

Social Anxiety: When what I express to another isn't felt or wanted or understood, the feeling goes back into myself and stabs me. ~Olivia Dresher #infj

Social Anxiety: When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system? ~Russell Hoban

Social Anxiety: Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right. ~Virgil, et al. See: quoteinvestigator.com/2015/02/03/you-can

Social Anxiety: Worry is a complete cycle of inefficient thought revolving about a pivot of fear. ~Author Unknown

Social Anxiety: Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due. ~William Ralph Inge

Social Anxiety: Worry is rust upon the blade. ~Henry Ward Hughes

Social Anxiety: Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. ~Leo Buscaglia

Social Anxiety: Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ~Swedish Proverb

Social Anxiety: Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die. ~Attributed to Douglas MacArthur

Social Anxiety: Writer. Recluse. Old Man. Little Kid. ~Adam Stanley, iamadamstanley.tumblr.com #oldsoul #innerchild #infj

Social Anxiety: Yep, I'm an INFJ — an antisocial butterfly and the most hugging, loving people-hater you'll ever meet. ~Terri Guillemets

Social Anxiety: You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith. ~Mary Manin Morrissey

Social Anxiety: You can't wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time. ~Pat Schroeder

Social Anxiety: You know those days when you've got the mean reds.... the blues are because you're getting fat or maybe it's been raining too long. You're sad, that's all. But the mean reds are horrible. You're afraid and you sweat like hell, but you don't know what you're afraid of. Except something bad is going to happen, only you don't know what it is. ~Truman Capote

Social Anxiety: You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do! ~Olin Miller

Social Anxiety: You're a little upset by your troubles, and that's natural enough, but don't let your mind run on them any more than you can help; drag your thoughts away from your troubles-by the ears, by the heels, or any other way, so you manage it; it's the healthiest thing a body can do; dwelling on troubles is deadly, just deadly-and that's the softest name there is for it. You must keep your mind amused-you must, indeed. ~Mark Twain

Social Anxiety: Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness. ~Ram Dass