WORRY QUOTES V

quotations about worry & worrying

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


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

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Worry is fear in search of a cause.

JEFF PEPPER

Daily Triumph


The reason worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

RALPH LOUIS WOODS

The Modern Handbook of Humor


Worry in the dark can make it even darker.

CAMRON WRIGHT

The Rent Collector


If the worry is reasonable, do something about it. If it's irrational or out of your control, recognize that.

ERIC BARKER

"Ancient wisdom: How the Buddhists and Stoics stay emotionally strong", The Week, March 30, 2017


The idea that worrying is a fruitful endeavour is predictive of excessive worrying.

ERIC RASSIN

Thought Suppression


I received a card the other day from Steve Early which said, "Don't Worry Me--I am an 8 Ulcer Man on 4 Ulcer Pay."

HARRY S. TRUMAN

attributed, Mr. President

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

JOHN CHAPMAN

Spiritual Letters


You can't wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time.

PAT SCHROEDER

attributed, Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior


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


Don't worry, be happy.

BOBBY MCFERRIN

"Don't Worry, Be Happy"


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


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


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


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


Worms eat you when you're dead; worries eat you when you're alive.

JEWISH PROVERB


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 first essential component of worry is a future orientation. In other words, when you worry you invariably focus on something that might happen but hasn't happened yet. This notion might seem a bit controversial. In fact, you might even disagree with it. You might argue that you worry about things that are happening now, not in the future. A closer look, though, reveals the truth--worry is like a haunted crystal ball, tormenting you with a terrifying view of the future.

KEVIN L. GYOERKOE & PAMELA S. WIEGARTZ

10 Simple Solutions to Worry


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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