Worry
- Anxiety checks learning. A feeling of well being and respect stimulates an alert mind. - Eda LeShan (from The Quotable Teacher, comp. by Howe)
- Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity.--Thomas Merton
- Anxiety leads to a narrowing of the field of attention, the so-called tunnel vision, and when people are anxious, they are unable to attend to the total situation as is necessary to enable them to act rationally, but impulsively do the first thing that comes into their heads which is usually determined by what others are doing at the same time.--J. A. C. Brown (Techniques of Persuasion)
- Anxiety never yet successfully bridged any chasm.--Ruffini
- As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.-- Julius Caesar
- A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.--John Lubbock
- Cheerfulness brings sunshine to the soul and drives away the shadows of anxiety.--Hannah Whitall Smith
- Clearly understand, there isn't any situation that isn't made worse by worry. Worry never solves anything. Worry never prevents anything. Worry never heals anything. Worry serves only one purpose... it makes matters worse.--Bob Procter (Your Achievement Ezine - Issue No. 176)
- Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever...--Isak Dinesen
- Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?--Dale Carnegie
- Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.--Norman Vincent Peale
- Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize in the imagination, to raise phantoms of horror, or to beset life with supernumerary distresses.--Samuel Johnson
- For plain and fancy worrying, give me a new mother every time.--Shirley Jackson
- Half the worry in the world is caused by people trying to make decisions before they have sufficient knowledge on which to base a decision.--Dean Hawkes
- Happy the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.--Ovid
- How often are you worrying about the present moment? The present moment is usually all right. If you're worrying, you're either agonizing over the past which you should have forgotten long ago, or else you're apprehensive over the future which hasn't even come yet. We tend to skip over the present moment which is the only moment God gives any of us to live.--Peace Pilgrim
- How would your life be different if... You stopped worrying about things you can’t control and started focusing on the things you can? Let today be the day…You free yourself from fruitless worry, seize the day and take effective action on things you can change.--Steve Maraboli (Life, the Truth, and Being Free)
- I always feel sorry for people who think more about a rainy day ahead than sunshine today.--Rae Foley (Suffer a Witch)
- 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
- I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way and that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.--Isak Dinesen
- If we worried half as much what others are doing for us and spent twice as much time helping others, we would all be exponentially happier.--Kirstie Alley
- If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.--William James
- If you can fix the thing that worries you, then fix it, otherwise don't waste precious time or energy on it.--Colleen Grant
- If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.--E. Joseph Cossman
- If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.--Krishnamurti
- It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear; about two of them nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying; and two perhaps can be settled.--Winston Churchill (in Churchill: Taken from the Diaries of Lord Moran)
- It isn't the things that happen to us, it's the things we think are going to happen to us that drive us almost crazy.--Kathleen Norris
- Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.--James Russell Lowell
- Let's make it our goal to be "present moment" people. Let's practice gratitude, especially when worry tries to take over our hearts. Life will become simpler, easier and less cluttered.--Susan K. Rowland (Make Room for God: Clearing Out the Clutter)
- No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.--Olive Schreiner
- Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.--Seneca
- One cannot change the past, but one can ruin the present by worrying over the future.--Anonymous
- The only way that worry will stop is through the proper understanding that change is the very basis of life, that we cannot continuously have something we like.--Ramesh S. Balsekar
- Overcoming fear and worry can be accomplished by living a day at a time or even a moment at a time. Your worries will be cut down to nothing.--Robert Anthony
- The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.--Robert Frost
- Some of your hurts you have cured,
And the sharpest you've even survived,
But what torments of grief you've endured,
From evils which never arrived.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up.--Anonymous (Guideposts)
- The task of worrying is to come up with positive solutions for life's perils by anticipating dangers before they arise. If we are preoccupied by worries, we have that must less attention to expend on figuring out the answers. Our worries become self-fulfilling prophecies, propelling us toward the very disaster they predict.--Daniel Goleman
- There are two kinds of worries -- those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter.-- Duke Ellington
- There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.--Harold Stephens
- There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.-Ovid (Metamorphoses)
- There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.--Epictetus
- True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.--Seneca
- We always have enough to be happy if we are enjoying what we do have--and not worrying about what we don't have.--Ken Keyes, Jr.
- We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.--Lewis Thomas (The Medusa and the Snail)
- We rush through our days in such stress and intensity, as if we were here to stay and the serious project of the world depended on us. We worry and grow anxious; we magnify trivia until they become important enough to control our lives. Yet all the time we have forgotten that we are but temporary sojourners on the surface of a strange planet spinning slowly in the infinite night of the cosmos. --John O'Donohue (Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong)
- We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.--H. A. Ironside
- While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.--Ruth Rendell (Talking to Strange Men)
- Why worry? Look at all the things we have and be happy.--Araceli Segarra
- Worry is like a rocking chair--it gives you something to do but it doesn't get you anywhere.--Dorothy Galyean
- Worry a little every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.--Mary Hemingway
- Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.--Corrie Ten Boom
- Worry is a misuse of the imagination.--Dan Zadra
- Worry 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
- Worry is as useless as a handle on a snowball.--Mitzi Chandler
- Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due.--William Inge
- Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith.--Paul Brunton
- Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.--Swedish proverb
- Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.--Eckhart Tolle
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