quotations about worry & worrying
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
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"Can we work together to fix our country?", The Spectrum, March 17, 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
To live by worry is to live against reality.
E. STANLEY JONES
Abundant Living
Fret not thyself, it tends only to evil-doing.
BIBLE
Psalms 37:8
Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.
MARY HEMINGWAY
attributed, Words of Wellness: A Treasury of Quotations for Well-Being
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
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
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
Worrying is good when it gets you to do things -- hold peace talks, build flood barriers, lock the back door, teach children road drill. But when you can't do anything then it's just destructive. The trick is to learn the difference between the two.
SHARON GRIFFITHS
"It's worrying to hear we regret our time worrying", Eastern Daily Press, February 22, 2016
Every moment of worry weakens the soul for its daily combat.
ANNA ROBERTSON BROWN
What is Worth While?
As for what has already happened, you can't do anything about it, so it is pointless to waste time thinking about it--to worry is an exercise in mindlessness. As for what might happen, we must remember that we don't know the future. Many things we worry about never happen, so many of our worries waste our energy. I know this is easier said than done, but realizing the pointlessness of worry is a start.
JOHN G. MESSERLY
"How To Cope With This Stressful Presidency", Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, March 6, 2017
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
If I was a worrier I'd worry, but not being a worrier I'm just sort of confused and p*ssed off.
MYKLE HANSEN
Help! A Beat is Eating Me!
Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.
LEO AIKMAN
attributed, Worth Repeating
It helps to know what the things are that tend to trigger your worries and write that down. But actually writing out your worries or talking out your worries is pretty much the same as worrying.
MICHELLE NEWMAN
"In Times Of Change, How To Deal With The Daily Wave Of Worry", WBUR, March 28, 2017
Worry is wasting today's time to clutter up tomorrow's opportunities with yesterday's trouble.
ANONYMOUS
The Speaker's Quote Book
Worrying is about living in a "what if" state of mind and visualizing what you DON'T want to experience, instead of what you DO! When your mind gets stuck on a negative thought, it automatically shifts into high gear and tries to fix the situation.
JAFREE OZWALD
The Manifesting Manual
Worry is discounting possible future sorrows so that the individual may have present misery.
WILLIAM GEORGE JORDAN
The Improvement Era, vol. 11, 1908
When I was burdened with worries, you comforted me and made me feel secure.
BIBLE
Psalms 94:19
If we didn't worry what would we do? How would you set the alarm for the morning? How would we finish the report we have to do? Worry is essential to our life. It just takes a life of its own and that's when people get into trouble.
REID WILSON
interview, KDKA Morning News, March 21, 2017