quotations about worry & worrying
Action is worry's worst enemy.
AMERICAN PROVERB
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
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
Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff.
ROBERT S. ELIOT
attributed, Words of Wellness: A Treasury of Quotations for Well-Being
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
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
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
If something worries you, check it out. Do what you can, take care of what you can, and then let it go. At this point, having done all you can, worrying about the issue doesn't do you any good. You could be using that energy in other ways to help you feel better.
JANICE CORSANO
This Is Only a Dream!: When You Die You Wake Up
Worry is a fidgety girl who can't do things right. In the morning she dresses herself but the clothes don't fit. Worry is slim. Worry is fat. Worry is never what she wants to be.
EILEEN CURTEIS
Reiki: A Spiritual Doorway to Natural Healing
Worrying is holding on to problems without seeking help.
MELVIN R. HALL
The Sky's the Limit: Go for the Gold!
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
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
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
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
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
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 affects the circulation, the glands, the whole nervous system.
CHARLES H. MAYO
attributed, Words of Wellness: A Treasury of Quotations for Well-Being
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 is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.
ARTHUR SOMERS ROCHE
attributed, Treasury of Spiritual Wisdom
What? Me worry?
ALFRED E. NEUMAN
MAD Magazine, July 1955