Quotes on Social Anxiety

INTROVERTS are especially vulnerable to challenges like marital tension, a parent’s death, or abuse. They’re more likely than their peers to react to these events with depression, anxiety, and shyness. Indeed, about a quarter of Kagan’s high-reactive kids suffer from some degree of the condition known as “social anxiety disorder,” a chronic and disabling form of shyness.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.

Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.

He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.