quotations about worry & worrying
That the birds of worry and care fly over your head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.
CHINESE PROVERB
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
Every moment of worry weakens the soul for its daily combat.
ANNA ROBERTSON BROWN
What is Worth While?
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
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
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
Worry is a starting place, but not a staying place.
SYBIL MACBETH
Praying in Color: Drawing a New Path to God
The reason worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
RALPH LOUIS WOODS
The Modern Handbook of Humor
Worry is fear in search of a cause.
JEFF PEPPER
Daily Triumph
The cause of worry is life: its cure is death.
CALEB WILLIAMS SALEEBY
Worry: The Disease of the Age
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
The idea that worrying is a fruitful endeavour is predictive of excessive worrying.
ERIC RASSIN
Thought Suppression
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"
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
We are, perhaps uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still. We deserve a better press, in my view.
LEWIS THOMAS
The Medusa and the Snail
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
Worrying is similar to purchasing ulcers on credit.
GREG REYNOLDS
"Issues of Faith: No worries when experiencing God's Peace", Peninsula Daily News, March 3, 2017
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
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
Worry is wasting today's time to clutter up tomorrow's opportunities with yesterday's trouble.
ANONYMOUS
The Speaker's Quote Book