quotations about worry & worrying
Worrying ... is always useless. It is a form of inner considering--i.e. of identifying. It is a continual mixing up of negative imagination with a few facts and so makes only wrong connections.
MAURICE NICOLL
Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky
Worry is forethought gone to seed.
WILLIAM GEORGE JORDAN
The Improvement Era, vol. 11, 1908
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
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
Worrying is not fun; worrying is very draining. Ever notice how during and after you've worried over something, how very drained you feel both mentally and physically? Worrying is very detrimental to the human body. This is called stress, and stress will either mutate or kill the very cells of your physical body.
NATHAN WHITING
A Journey of Remembering: While Seeking the Ultimate Love
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
Since worrying is toxic let us concentrate on finding a solution to our problems. Let's focus our mind on everything that is good, healthy, productive, and that will help us to increase our ability to enjoy life more abundantly.
MELVIN R. HALL
The Sky's the Limit: Go for the Gold!
If I was a worrier I'd worry, but not being a worrier I'm just sort of confused and p*ssed off.
MYKLE HANSEN
Help! A Beat is Eating Me!
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
Worry is like a stream of fear trickling through man's mind, which if not controlled will flood and drown all other thoughts in the mind and overtakes the mind entirely.
PANO GEORGE KARKANIS
Thoughts for Meaningful Life
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
To worry is to miss the purpose of one's being: it is to fail--to fail for self, to fail for others, and it is to fail gratuitously.
CALEB WILLIAMS SALEEBY
Worry: The Disease of the Age
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 wasting today's time to clutter up tomorrow's opportunities with yesterday's trouble.
ANONYMOUS
The Speaker's Quote Book
Worry is the admission of incompetence silently to oneself.
WILLIAM ESTABROOK CHANCELLOR
The Health of the Teacher
It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.
GEORGE MACDONALD
The Vicar's Daughter
Even if we can change some aspect of the things we worry about, worrying is not the way to do it.
MICHAEL OLPIN & MARGIE HESSON
Stress Management for Life: A Research-Based Experiential Approach
Don't go looking for worry. It finds you on its own.
AUTUMN JORDAN
Perfect
Worrying is exactly how you manifest what you don't want.
JAFREE OZWALD
The Manifesting Manual
Worry over what has not occurred is a serious malady.
IBN GABIROL
Mibhar HaPeninim