Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself.
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Quotes tagged ‘worry’
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?
Please, don’t worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting.
I'm an over thinker. I hate it. I make a big deal out of the most simplest of things. Create problems within my own head. I wish I could stop overthinking things. It's only making things worse than it actually is. I need to learn to stop overthinking the littlest of things. Too bad I can't help it.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
To think too much is a disease.
But as soon as one is at rest in this world off he goes on something else to worry about.
He bent his head back toward the ceiling and breathed out a short pained sigh or moan. He dropped his hands, worried them in quick circles, clapped them to the top of his head again. His movements were spastic and strange, the movements of a person whose thoughts have become toxic.
And so the months had mounted, Pella lying in bed in their sunstruck loft, dragging herself to the Rite Aid and the psychiatrist and back again, David alternately peeved and given purpose by her somnolence. There were events, fights, excursions, but none of it mattered, none of it penetrated the thi…
As I sit on the folding metal chair I begin to fear getting up. As the finale approaches, I experience outright panic. What if my feet no longer move? What if my muscles lock?
Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.
The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely. Love is whimsical and temperamental. Its nature is ephemeral, and transitory. It comes when it pleases,and goes away without warning. Accept and enjoy it while it remains, but spend no time worrying about its departure. Worry will never bring it back…
If you gathered up all the fearful thoughts that exist in the mind of the average person, looked at them objectively, and tried to decide just how much good they provided that person, you would see that not some but all fearful thoughts are useless. They do no good. Zero. They interfere with dreams,…
If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and punish you for another. The universe has no fixed agenda. Once you make any decision, it works around that decision. There is no right or wrong, only a series…
Take the next 24 hours and just relax with the knowing that everything is okay. Let go of the stress and worry for one day and see what happens.
We imagine that a little anxiety and worry is an indication of how wise we really are; it may be an indication of how wicked we really are.
We mustn’t give trouble a shape before it throws its shadow.
It's a waste of time worrying about something that worry won't fix. It's about as useful as trying to feed your pet rock.