WORRY QUOTES IV

quotations about worry & worrying

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

MARCUS AURELIUS

Meditations

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Worrying is a waste of our time. Period. If we are worrying, then we are not doing anything about anything.

JANICE CORSANO

This Is Only a Dream!: When You Die You Wake Up


From its earliest days, worrying has been seen as a character weakness, a frailty, a self-indulgence; something that should be avoided, controlled or cured. That explains why worrying -- where the connotation with fear is never far away -- was originally seen as a female complaint, a shortcoming that the Victorian male, with his fabled stiff-upper lip, could certainly never admit to. But as a lifelong male worrier, with as many male friends who admit to similar bouts of insecurity as female, I'm convinced that men have been worrying for just as long as women. It just took them the best part of a century to admit it.

FRANCIS O'GORMAN

Daily Mail, July 24, 2015


Don't be forecasting evil unless it is what you can guard against. Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it into a defense.

BRUCE LEE

Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

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The problem with worry is that we attract the very thing we are trying to avoid. We live a self-fulfilling prophecy. Life keeps its agreement with us through our beliefs, because whatever we think about, we bring about. Life is like a mirror. It reflects back whatever image we present to it.

ROBERT ANTHONY

Beyond Positive Thinking

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Stop worrying. Please. Because I suspect it's white-anting your serenity, crashing into your life too much.

NIKKI GEMMELL

"Is it worth the worry?", The Australian, March 4, 2017


Since worrying is toxic let us concentrate on finding a solution to our problems. Let's focus our mind on everything that is good, healthy, productive, and that will help us to increase our ability to enjoy life more abundantly.

MELVIN R. HALL

The Sky's the Limit: Go for the Gold!


Worry is nothing but the bad habit of thinking about what you DON'T want to happen. It's a misuse of your most precious power -- the imagination.

DAN ZADRA

How to Beat the Jitters


Excessive worrying is like walking through a foggy street at night; you have no idea what lies ahead and the darkness and dampness create a sense of dread that is difficult to ignore. The actual landscape is easy to navigate, but because you chose to walk into the foggy portion of the street, you won't be able to see anything clearly.

ANTHONY JOSHUA

Overcoming Anxiety: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living


People who are prone to worrying are soft-wired to pay attention to threatening news, thereby building up a library of evidence in their brains that worrying is necessary. Think about it. On any given day, there are so many threatening things happening in the world -- anything from new viruses, terrorist attacks, or political conflicts to a hostile email or upcoming storm are all real events. Yet, if you only pay attention to the threats, you have no space left in your brain to process anything else. Threat becomes your reality, and worry becomes your justifiable response. Anyone telling you to give up your worry will sound out of touch, to say the least.

SRINI PILLAY

"Managing worry in generalized anxiety disorder", Harvard Health Publications, February 17, 2016


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. We deserve a better press, in my view.

LEWIS THOMAS

The Medusa and the Snail


Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.

KEITH CASERTA

Soul Searching


Worrisome thoughts reproduce faster than rabbits, so one of the most powerful ways to stop the spiral of worry is simply to disclose my worry to a friend.... The simple act of reassurance from another human being [becomes] a tool of the Spirit to cast out fear.

JOHN ORTBERG, JR.

The Me I Want to Be


The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control.

JOHN LANCHESTER

Capital


People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching a cold.

JOHN JAY CHAPMAN

attributed, Words from the Wise


Do not worry at being worried; but accept worry peacefully. Difficult but not impossible.

JOHN CHAPMAN

Spiritual Letters


Worry is different from fear. If fear is like a raging fever, worry is a low-grade temperature. It nags at us, simmers in our souls, hovers in the back of our minds like a faint memory. We may fear certain realities, like death; we worry about vague possibilities. Worry distracts us more than paralyzes us. It is like a leaky faucet we never get around to fixing.

GERALD LAWSON SITTSER

The Will of God As a Way of Life

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Never hurry and never worry!

E. B. WHITE

Charlotte's Web

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That the birds of worry and care fly over your head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.

CHINESE PROVERB

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Worry affects the circulation, the glands, the whole nervous system.

CHARLES H. MAYO

attributed, Words of Wellness: A Treasury of Quotations for Well-Being