quotations about worry & worrying
Worrying is designed to weaken us so that we don't overcome.
ANGELA NAYLOR
No One Sees My Pain
What worries you masters you.
HADDON W. ROBINSON
attributed, Drawing Closer, Growing Stronger: Making the Most of Your Walk with God
Worry is an unproductive, useless form of fear, and that makes it, by definition, unhealthy.
MAXIE MAULTSBY JR.
Ebony, February 1981
Worry is like a rocking chair--it keeps you busy but gets you nowhere.
KATIE DALE
Someone Else's Life
There are very few things in the mind which eat up as much energy as worry. It is one of the most difficult things not to worry about anything. Worry is experienced when things go wrong, but in relation to past happenings it is idle merely to wish that they might have been otherwise. The frozen past is what it is, and no amount of worrying is going to make it other than what it has been. But the limited ego-mind identifies itself with its past, gets entangled with it and keeps alive the pangs of frustrated desires.
MEHER BABA
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Drag your thoughts away from your troubles -- by the ears, by the heels, or any other way, so you manage it.
MARK TWAIN
The American Claimant
When it comes to Mom, worry is my constant companion, with me like those belt beepers husbands used to wear when the birth was imminent.
PHIL GIANFICARO
"The forecast: Worry, 100 miles away", Burlington County Times, March 16, 2017
You're worried about what-ifs. Well, what if you stopped worrying?
SHANNON CELEBI
Driving Off Bridges
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
Worry is negative prayer, or prayer in reverse. It is a habit which is not to be taken lightly, for it is an evil one.
MARTHA LEMASTERS
"Worry is ingratitude to God in advance", Vero Beach Newsweekly, February 8, 2016
While many people think they are just worriers, they do not realize that they actually worry for a reason. Their worry is an attempt to protect themselves! If you're wondering how such a nagging, persistent, annoying, and sometimes distressing psychological state can be helpful, you're probably not alone. It turns out that worrying about something puts your mind into a negative state, but this helps, because when something negative does happen, you don't feel that much worse. You've already been feeling bad.
SRINI PILLAY
"Managing worry in generalized anxiety disorder", Harvard Health Publications, February 17, 2016
Worry is our happiness-eater.
NIKKI GEMMELL
"Is it worth the worry?", The Australian, March 4, 2017
Worrying is not looking for a solution, but just reviewing the "problem" over and over.
MELVIN R. HALL
The Sky's the Limit: Go for the Gold!
People believe that since they have worried about a particular thing that didn't happen, their worrying alone was like the magical ounce of prevention.
CHRIS BENSON
"Dr. Maxie Maultsby Says: Stop Worrying and Get On With Your Life", Ebony, February 1981
Stop worrying. Nobody gets out of this world alive.
CLIVE JAMES
attributed, Secrets of Resilient People: 50 Strategies to Be Strong
The idea that worrying is a fruitful endeavour is predictive of excessive worrying.
ERIC RASSIN
Thought Suppression
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
Worrying is exactly how you manifest what you don't want.
JAFREE OZWALD
The Manifesting Manual
What does worry accomplish except to breed more worry?
DEAN KOONTZ
Odd Apocalypse
Each moment of worry, anxiety or stress represents lack of faith in miracles, for they never cease.
T. F. HODGE
From Within I Rise