Building a Non-Anxious Life Quotes

“Boundaries come from believing in your time and your space enough to protect it.”
― John Delony, Building a Non-Anxious Life

“We’ve created a world our bodies cannot exist in.”
― John Delony, Building a Non-Anxious Life

“The non-anxious person rejects loneliness. He or she chooses connection, even when it’s hard. You choose love over hate, friendships over disconnection, and awkwardness over networking. This is an entry point toward a non-anxious life.”
― John Delony, Building a Non-Anxious Life

“Anxiety is not a disease. It’s just your body trying to get your attention.”
― John Delony, Building a Non-Anxious Life

“Rumination and worry are a total waste of your time.”
― John Delony, Building a Non-Anxious Life

“Anxiety isn’t the problem. Anxiety is just the alarm system letting people know things are off the rails.”
― John Delony, Building a Non-Anxious Life

“If busyness is your drug, rest will feel like stress.”
― John Delony, Building a Non-Anxious Life

“must be wary of letting these horrible moments or tragic experiences determine who we think we are. As if what happened to us in our darkest moments is all we will ever be.”
― John Delony, Building a Non-Anxious Life

“Anxiety is not the problem. The problem is that we are unsafe, disconnected, unhealthy, and living like we have no say in what happens next.”
― John Delony, Building a Non-Anxious Life

“What if we lived our lives as though we could never move? Same churches, same neighborhoods, same homes, same jobs. How would we live our lives differently?” His question haunted me. Because I would be more honest about my needs. I’d be more willing to engage in difficult conversations—seek connection—versus just cutting and running. I’d put aside petty differences for the sake of our community. John Ortberg says our souls “become sick when we are divided and conflicted.”100 Joy, connection, creativity, worship, practice, service. With these endeavors, you are choosing the hard path.”
― John Delony, Building a Non-Anxious Life

“You’re worthy of being loved. You’re enough. You always will be. AND you cannot do it on your own.”
― John Delony, Building a Non-Anxious Life

“A healthy community is a thick system of relationships. It is irregular, dynamic, organic, and personal. . . . People are up in one another’s business, know each other’s secrets, walk with each other in times of grief, and celebrate together in times of joy. . . . People help raise one another’s kids. In these kinds of communities, which were typical in all human history until the last sixty years or so, people extended to neighbors the sorts of devotion that today we extend only to family. . . . The social pressure can be slightly overbearing, the intrusiveness sometimes hard to bear, but the discomfort is worth it because the care and benefits are so great.”
― John Delony, Building a Non-Anxious Life

“A peaceful life isn’t drama-free or pain-free. A peaceful life refers to how you’re able to handle things when they do indeed fall apart.”
― John Delony, Building a Non-Anxious Life

“The first thing to go is our boundaries. We quit critically thinking for ourselves and outsource our thoughts and feelings to others who don’t have our best interests at heart.”
― John Delony, Building a Non-Anxious Life

“Anxiety isn’t the problem. Anxiety is just the alarm system letting people know things are off the rails. People have created very anxious lives, and their bodies are trying to get their attention.”
― John Delony, Building a Non-Anxious Life

“Rumination and worry are a total waste of your time. They don’t help you think critically, they don’t provide you with in-advance answers, and they don’t ward off future tragedies through some sort of practice run.”
― John Delony, Building a Non-Anxious Life

“Trappist monk Thomas Merton wrote in his poem “The Inner Law”: He who is controlled by objects Loses possession of his inner self: If he no longer values himself, How can he value others? If he no longer values others, He is abandoned.101”
― John Delony, Building a Non-Anxious Life

“What if we lived our lives as though we could never move? Same churches, same neighborhoods, same homes, same jobs. How would we live our lives differently?”
― John Delony, Building a Non-Anxious Life

“Choose your hard”
― John Delony, Building a Non-Anxious Life

“master therapist Terrence Real says, “Family dysfunction rolls down from generation to generation, like a fire in the woods, taking down everything in its path until one person in one generation has the courage to turn and face the flames. That person brings peace to their ancestors and spares the children that follow.”78”
― John Delony, Building a Non-Anxious Life

“Deeply internalize this: You are worth more than the worst thing that’s ever happened to you. You are worth more than the worst thing you’ve ever done. You are worth more than the stories you inherited. These things do not have to be your legacy or your identity. And . . . You cannot change what happened to you.”
― John Delony, Building a Non-Anxious Life

“Building a non-anxious life is about realizing: reality hurts.”
― John Delony, Building a Non-Anxious Life

“Anxiety is simply an alarm.”
― John Delony, Building a Non-Anxious Life

“But these cannot be our way of life. We have to back away from a life of poisonous, constant sarcasm and pessimism and begin to seek a higher power who offers truth, freedom, peace, and deep, resounding joy.”
― John Delony, Building a Non-Anxious Life

“We live in an age when sarcasm and pessimism so often present as wisdom, while joy and optimism so often show up as insanity.”
― John Delony, Building a Non-Anxious Life