Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. -Mark Twain
Ask yourself this question:
“Will this matter a year from now?”
-Richard Carlson, writing in Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which will never happen. -James Russel Lowell
Don’t waste your life in doubts and fears: spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour’s duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I’d have fewer imaginary ones. -Don Herold
Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday. -Author Unknown
Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. ~Benjamin Franklin
Be just, and fear not.
Let all the ends thou aim’st at be thy country’s,
Thy God’s and truth’s.
-William Shakespeare
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. ~Leo Buscaglia
Never let life’s hardships disturb you … no one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages.
-Nichiren Daishonen
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
It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more on a man than he can bear. But worry is rust upon the blade. It is not movement that destroys the machinery, but friction.
-Henry Ward Beecher
Troubles are a lot like people – they grow bigger if you nurse them. -Author Unknown
Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.
-Jonathan Edwards
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
-E. Joseph Cossman
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. -Edith Armstrong
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