A hundred-load of worry will not pay an ounce of debt.
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.
We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday’s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.
It iz the little bits ov things that fret and worry us; we kan dodge an elefunt but we kan’t a fli. – Josh Billings
I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal – and soon they’ll forget my number.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Troubles are a lot like people – they grow bigger if you nurse them.
I’ve developed a new philosophy… I only dread one day at a time.
If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep. – Dale Carnegie
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. – Mark Twain
If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I’d have fewer imaginary ones.
Worry is a misuse of imagination.
Do your best and don’t worry.
You can’t always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside. – Wayne Dyer
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on. – Eckhart Tolle
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength. – Charles Spurgeon
Anxiety 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
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them. – George Bernard Shaw
You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you. – Dan Millman
Smile, breathe, and go slowly. – Thich Nhat Hanh
The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness. – Alain de Botton
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