Quotes About Mindfulness

If you could once make up your mind never to undertake more work ... than you can carry on calmly, quietly, without hurry or flurry ... and if the instant you feel yourself growing nervous and ... out of breath, you would stop and take a breath, you would find this simple common-sense rule doing for you what no prayers or tears could ever accomplish.

Worry is a god, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

Worry is like racing the engine of an automobile without letting in the clutch.

Worry is like a rocking chair-it keeps you moving but doesn't get you anywhere.

I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. "Never worry about your heart 'til it stops beating."

Worry doesn't help tomorrow's troubles, but it does ruin today's happiness.

You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.

There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry. ... One of these days is Yesterday ... And the other day I do not worry about is Tomorrow.

We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.

T'ain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.

No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work.

If we would keep filling our minds with the picture of happy things ahead, many worries and anxieties, and perhaps ill health, would naturally melt away.... Always expect the best. Then if you have to hurdle a few tough problems, you will have generated the strength and courage to do so.

A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety.

Rule No. i is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule No. 2 is, it's all small stuff.

Worry is the cross which we make for ourselves by overanxiety.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

Worry is the sin we're not afraid to commit.

That man is blest Who does his best And leaves the rest, Then-do not worry.

If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.

It is the little things that fret and worry us; you can dodge an elephant, but not a fly.

Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about them.

Don't hurry, don't worry. You're only here for a short visit. So be sure to stop and smell the flowers.

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.