quotations about worry & worrying
Worrying really is a waste of time, effort and energy. But try telling that to a worrier and you'll just worry them even more.
SHARON GRIFFITHS
"It's worrying to hear we regret our time worrying", Eastern Daily Press, February 22, 2016
Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Little Women
Extreme worry is opposite of trust in the care of our loving God? This kind of worry keeps us from seeking God, and it makes us have only horizontal thoughts. It is our mortal foe because what we worry about becomes more significant to us than God.
NAOMI INGRIM
"Believe in God, and don't worry", Killeen Daily Herald, March 10, 2017
To live by worry is to live against reality.
E. STANLEY JONES
Abundant Living
Worry makes people thin, except when they worry about being fat.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
LEO BUSCAGLIA
Born for Love: Reflections on Loving
Better to be busy than to be busy worrying.
ANGELA LANSBURY
Quick Quotations
Fret not thyself, it tends only to evil-doing.
BIBLE
Psalms 37:8
Worry is a tool that the devil uses to silently destroy lives and kill destinies. It comes in as if it can provide solution to the issues at hand but Jesus Christ has warned us that worry is helpless -- it is an enemy to kill, steal and destroy.
HENRY O. ADELEGAN
"Stop worrying, start worshipping!", The Nation Online, February 26, 2016
A man who has no control over worry is a man who has no control over his future.
PATRICK MABILOG
"5 ways you can stop being anxious about tomorrow", Christian Today, March 27, 2017
Worry is half impatience and half ignorance.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
Another thing about the action of worrying is that once you're at the point of worrying over something, you've taken yourself out of the fast lane of your soul's journey. If I'm worrying about something, this immediately tells me my footwork is done, and I've gone far enough. To keep worrying over something past the finished footwork is to send a lot of mixed messages out into the universe. Worrying is a state of being and creative process, just the same as wondering is. Stay focused on the positive one (wondering) and you'll get to sit back and let life come to you, instead of the other way around.
NATHAN WHITING
A Journey of Remembering: While Seeking the Ultimate Love
When you worry, you go over the same ground endlessly and come out the same place you started.
HAROLD B. WALKER
attributed, Words of Wellness: A Treasury of Quotations for Well-Being
It's not time to worry yet.
HARPER LEE
To Kill a Mockingbird
My worrying is misguided in that it only serves to frighten me, make me afraid of the unknown and cause me to take a very cynical view that nothing will ever change. When these feelings and emotions begin to arouse, I have learned to begin to channel and redirect them into the places where I can have significant impact.
ZACHARY ALMAGUER
"Can we work together to fix our country?", The Spectrum, March 17, 2017
The Greeks said that worry is two opposing forces that tear a person apart. The Saxons say worry is like a wolf with a stranglehold on a man's throat. Worry chokes our physical strength, our creative powers, our spiritual growth and our joy.
TOM O'BRIEN
"Focus your thoughts on God", Ellwood City Ledger, March 24, 2017
Some people believe that worrying might help them solve some problem in the future. How do they know if they have solved the problem and achieved their goal in worrying? If the problem is in future, do they have to wait till it occurs to know if they have solved it? Do they believe that they know they have solved the problem when they feel less anxious and stressed? This is where the problem lies. If your signal to stop worrying is when you feel less anxious, but worrying just increases your stress and anxiety, you are never going to get the signal to stop worrying.
BRUCE FERNIE & GABRIELLE MURPHY
Coping Better with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/myalgic Encephalomyelitis
Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway.
MARY C. CROWLEY
attributed, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teens Talk Getting In to College
It's about the quality of the worry ... I have happier worries now than I used to.
DAVID GILMOUR
The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son
When I was burdened with worries, you comforted me and made me feel secure.
BIBLE
Psalms 94:19