WORRY QUOTES IX

quotations about worry & worrying

Face it: Your brain can be a pretty crazy place. All kinds of things bounce around in there. And you're usually pretty good at culling the wacky thoughts. But then you get worried.... And your brain starts multiplying negative possibilities like crazy. And you make the mistake of taking them seriously. Every. Single. One.

ERIC BARKER

"Ancient wisdom: How the Buddhists and Stoics stay emotionally strong", The Week, March 30, 2017


There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.

HAROLD STEPHENS

attributed, Chew on Things: Workbook for Fellow Worriers


We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies. We make mental provisions for the days to come, and everything turns out differently, quite differently. Sufficient unto the day. The things that have to be done must be done, and for the rest we must not allow ourselves to become infested with thousands of petty fears and worries.

ETTY HILLESUM

Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943


When faced with adverse circumstances, if you can do something, do it and there is not need to worry. If you can't do anything, then there is no point to worry. So in either case, worrying is an added suffering.

MATTHIEU RICARD

"How to be happy, per the Happiest Man in the World", New York Daily News, March 12, 2017


Basically, if the mind stays in the present, it's impossible to worry. Upon careful consideration, it becomes clear that human beings are capable of worrying only about an event that has already transpired or one that may take place in the future (although the occurrence might have just happened or may be about to happen in the next instant). The present moment contains no time or space for worry.

H. E. DAVEY

Japanese Yoga: The Way of Dynamic Meditation