WORRY QUOTES V

quotations about worry & worrying

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 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


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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Worry is a starting place, but not a staying place.

SYBIL MACBETH

Praying in Color: Drawing a New Path to God


What's the use of worrying?
It never was worth while,
So, pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag,
And smile, smile, smile.

GEORGE ASAF

"Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-bag"


People who believe that worry is uncontrollable rarely get the signal to stop worrying.

BRUCE FERNIE & GABRIELLE MURPHY

Coping Better with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/myalgic Encephalomyelitis


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


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


A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

JOHN LUBBOCK

The Use of Life

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Worry is spiritual nearsightedness, a fumbling way of looking at little things, and of magnifying their value.

ANNA ROBERTSON BROWN

What is Worth While?


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

KEITH CASERTA

Soul Searching


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


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

JEWISH PROVERB


Worry-free living can be ours. Worry is merely an option. Take a lesson from our children. Toss your worries onto your Father. Then go outside and play.

RICK BROWN

"Let Jesus help you live worry free", Cypress Creek Mirror, February 17, 2016


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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Don't worry, be happy.

BOBBY MCFERRIN

"Don't Worry, Be Happy"


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


Worry in the dark can make it even darker.

CAMRON WRIGHT

The Rent Collector


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