Worry - Quotes
We worry about the future and think about the past. And we so often miss what`s right in front of us.
Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy managing their lives. I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out.
It makes no sense to spend some of the precious time we have now, when we are well, consumed with worry about what might be when we are not well. Worse, using that energy worrying robs us of the energy we need to heal ourselves.
You are only in control of so much. So whatever you are not in control of you can`t worry about.
If you`re doing your best, you won`t have any time to worry about failure.
I have no regrets. I wouldn`t have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
One of the big reliefs for the atheist is not having to worry about what to hope, wish, and pray for. Did I want to pray for my mother`s suffering to end? Did I want to hope for her death? I didn`t have to worry about that. I could hope one day that she`d live longer so I could talk to her, and wish the next day that she would die and not have to suffer her paralysis and physical loss any longer. My wishing and hoping were inert; I could let them run wild. I could use them as pure solace.
In a meeting you don’t have to worry about how you are coming across to colleagues, because they are busy worrying about how they are coming across to you.
When people don't have to worry about having their basic needs met, they care a lot more about having products and leaders that represent who they are.
Worry is like interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due.
Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details.
The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.