Quotes About Worry

medicated myself with too much TV, too much food, and too much worry—all designed to avoid having to feel the pain that one feels at the recognition of one's lost potential.

Preocuparse por cosas que no dependen de uno es una buena manera de ponerse enfermo.

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You truly cannot afford the luxury of even one negative thought." "Really?" "Really. A worrisome thought is like an embryo: it starts off small but grows and grows. Soon it takes on a life of its own.

This is where the prayer beads around my neck come in," Julian added with rising enthusiasm. "Every time I catch myself thinking a negative thought, I take this necklace off and remove another bead. These beads of worry go into a cup I keep in my knapsack. Together they serve as gentle reminders that I still have a distance to travel on the road to mental mastery and responsibility over the thoughts that fill my mind.

It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear; about two, nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying; and two perhaps can be settled.

La preocupación priva a la mente de gran parte de su poder y, antes o después, acaba dañando el alma.

Worry causes your precious mental energy and potential to leak, just like air leaking out of an inner tube.

he had learned for mind control and for erasing the habit of worry that was consuming so many in our complex society.

Really. A worrisome thought is like an embryo: it starts off small but grows and grows. Soon it takes on a life of its own.

worrisome thought is like an embryo: it starts off small but grows and grows. Soon it takes on a life of its own.

Worry drains the mind of much of its power and, sooner or later, it injures the soul.

Every second you spend thinking about what you don't want in your life is a second denying focus and energy from getting what you do want. Every minute you worry about what's not working is a minute drawn away from creating what will work. And every hour spent reflecting on the disappointments of the past is an hour stolen from seeing the possibilities that your future holds.

A worrisome thought is like an embryo.It starts small but grows and grows. Soon it takes on a life of its own.

Look at the toxic waste that most people put into the fertile garden of their minds every single day: the worries and anxieties, the fretting about the past, the brooding over the future and those self-created fears that wreak havoc within your inner world. Worry drains the mind of much of its power and, sooner or later, it injures the soul.

Have you ever seen the inner tube of a bicycle tire?" "Of course." "When it is fully inflated, it can easily take you to your destination. But if there are leaks in it, the tube eventually deflates, and your journey comes to an abrupt end. This is also how the mind works. Worry causes your precious mental energy and potential

Right now, Dinabai's face, and Om's, and mine are all occupied. Worrying about work and money, and where to sleep tonight. But that does not mean we are not sad. It may not show on the face, but it's sitting inside here.' He placed his hand over his heart. 'In here, there is limitless room – happiness, kindness, sorrow, anger, friendship

He even told me that anxiety and worry about the matter [i.e., university finances] had made him sick

In this early period, Rockefeller was a chronic worrier who labored under a great deal of self-imposed stress.

He fretted endlessly about his company and, below the surface, was constantly on edge.

Life is endlessly capable of surprises, so he knew one day he would come face to face with his physical equal. With somebody who might worry him. But he looked and saw this wasn't the day. So he just smiled and looked away again.

Don't worry," he said. "There are no wires for NHI cases." Casey Nice said, "Which are what?" "No humans involved. We're not very interested.

Confidence, maybe," Chang said. "Or overconfidence. He thinks we're dead by now. Maybe he's got nothing else to worry about. He could be the apex predator here. Unchallenged.

Military police," Reacher said. "But don't worry. I'm sure by five o'clock we'll have plenty of civilized people here. You can give up on me and get along with them instead." The