quotations about worry & worrying
Worrying is designed to weaken us so that we don't overcome.
ANGELA NAYLOR
No One Sees My Pain
Worrying is only useful if it makes us aware of something that needs to be remedied, allows us to resolve the situation and move on. It is bad for us when it constantly fills our mind and we take no action or remain preoccupied. It wastes time and energy.
SARAH MCNAMARA
Helping Young People to Beat Stress
All humans worry. If we didn't worry, we might take dangerous risks and pay a steep price. Worrying is normal in our lives and has an important function. However, worrying becomes a problem when you do it too often and for no good reason.
FRANK KOLLAR
"In Trading, Expectation Can Be a Dangerous Word", MoneyShow, February 19, 2016
Worrying is similar to purchasing ulcers on credit.
GREG REYNOLDS
"Issues of Faith: No worries when experiencing God's Peace", Peninsula Daily News, March 3, 2017
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles -- by the ears, by the heels, or any other way, so you manage it.
MARK TWAIN
The American Claimant
There are very few things in the mind which eat up as much energy as worry. It is one of the most difficult things not to worry about anything. Worry is experienced when things go wrong, but in relation to past happenings it is idle merely to wish that they might have been otherwise. The frozen past is what it is, and no amount of worrying is going to make it other than what it has been. But the limited ego-mind identifies itself with its past, gets entangled with it and keeps alive the pangs of frustrated desires.
MEHER BABA
Discourses
Worry is like a rocking chair--it keeps you busy but gets you nowhere.
KATIE DALE
Someone Else's Life
One can make one's life a complete misery, worrying about burglaries and shipwrecks, but ask anyone, anyone you know ... earth-shattering disasters and fabulous inheritances all seems to take place exclusively in the newspapers.
JEAN ANOUILH
The Rehearsal
Don't worry, be happy.
BOBBY MCFERRIN
"Don't Worry, Be Happy"
What? Me worry?
ALFRED E. NEUMAN
MAD Magazine, July 1955
Worms eat you when you're dead; worries eat you when you're alive.
JEWISH PROVERB
Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.
CHARLES W. MAYO
attributed, Nols Wilderness Wisdom: Quotes for Inspirational Exploration
Drink poison rather than worry.
IBN GABIROL
Mibhar HaPeninim
Worry in the dark can make it even darker.
CAMRON WRIGHT
The Rent Collector
Worrying is the magical thinking that worrying can prevent disaster. Worrying is anxiety in control. Worrying is belief in anxiety as some kind of god. Worrying is making stress and conflict now for imagined stress and conflict in the future. Worrying mistakes anxiety for action.
KEVIN EVERETT FITZMAURICE
Attitude Is All You Need!
Worry is evidence of unbelief and proof that there is deep insecurity caused by a lack of oneness with God.
MARTHA LEMASTERS
"Worry is ingratitude to God in advance", Vero Beach Newsweekly, February 8, 2016
The longer I have followed Jesus, the more I have experienced him lifting worry's weight from my soul. Increasingly, I view worry as a cue to pray, choosing to trust my Heavenly Father and to thank him.
GREG REYNOLDS
"Issues of Faith: No worries when experiencing God's Peace", Peninsula Daily News, March 3, 2017
You're worried about what-ifs. Well, what if you stopped worrying?
SHANNON CELEBI
Driving Off Bridges
One of the worst features about worrying is that it destroys our ability to concentrate. When we worry, our minds jump here and there and everywhere, and we lose all power of decision. However, when we force ourselves to face the worst and accept it mentally, we then eliminate all these vague imaginings and put ourselves in a position in which we are able to concentrate on our problem.
WILLIS H. CARRIER
attributed, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
Worrying is an attempt to exert control over the future by thinking about it. In this way, worry is something that occurs on the inside, and its effects on the outside world are only imaginary.
CHAD LEJEUNE
The Worry Trap