How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
- “When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.”
- “Our thoughts make us what we are.”
- “The best possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today's work superbly today. That is the only possible way you can prepare for the future.”
- “No matter what happens, always be yourself.”
- “Two men looked out from prison bars, One saw the mud, the other saw stars.”
- “Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember "Life is too short to be little".”
- “Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession.”
- “Let's never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let's do as General Eisenhower does: let's never waste a minute thinking about people we don't like.”
- “You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment, and your heredity have made you. For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.”
- “Let's find and remedy all our weaknesses before our enemies get a chance to say a word."
- “when the fierce, burning winds blow over our lives-and we cannot prevent them-let us, too, accept the inevitable. And then get busy and pick up the pieces.”
- “If You Have A Lemon, Make A Lemonade."
- That is what a great educator does. But the fool does the exact opposite. If he finds that life has handed him a lemon, he gives up and says: "I'm beaten. It is fate. I haven't got a chance." Then he proceeds to rail against the world and indulge in an orgy of selfpity. But when the wise man is handed a lemon, he says: "What lesson can I learn from this misfortune? How can I improve my situation? How can I turn this lemon into a
lemonade?” - “Think of your life as an hourglass. You know there are thousands of grains of sand in the top of the hourglass; and they all pass slowly and evenly through the narrow neck in the middle. Nothing you or I could do would make more than one grain of sand pass through this narrow neck without impairing the hourglass. You and I and everyone else are like this hourglass...if we do not take [tasks] one at a time and let them pass... slowly and evenly, then we are bound to break our own...structure.”
- “The words "Think and Thank" are inscribed in many of the Cromwellian churches of England. These words ought to be inscribed in our hearts, too: "Think and Thank". Think of all we have to be grateful for, and thank God for all our boons and bounties.”
- “Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody and something other than the person he is in body and mind.”
- “Relaxation and Recreation The most relaxing recreating forces are a healthy religion, sleep, music, and laughter. Have faith in God—learn to sleep well— Love good music—see the funny side of life— And health and happiness will be yours.”
- “Relaxation and Recreation The most relaxing recreating forces are a healthy religion, sleep, music, and laughter. Have faith in God—learn to sleep well— Love good music—see the funny side of life— And health and happiness will be yours.”
- “knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.”
- “One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon—instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.”
- “Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.”
- “1. Ask yourself, “What is the worst that can possibly happen?” 2. Prepare to accept it if you have to. 3. Then calmly proceed to improve on the worst.”
- “the best possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today’s work superbly today. That is the only possible way you can prepare for the future.”
- “Every day is a new life to a wise man.”
- “one of the worst features about worrying is that it destroys our ability to concentrate.”
- “It has been said that nearly all of our worries and unhappiness come from our imagination and not from reality.”
- “Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.”
- “Experience has taught me,” says Sam Wood, “that it is safest to drop, as quickly as possible, people who pretend to be what they aren’t.”
- “Keep busy. The worried person must lose himself in action, lest he wither in despair.”
- “Shut off the past! Let the dead past bury its dead. . . . Shut out the yesterdays which have lighted fools the way to dusty death. . . . The load of tomorrow, added to that of yesterday, carried today, makes the strongest falter. Shut off the future as tightly as the past. . . . The future is today. . . . There is no tomorrow.”
- “Let’s not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember “Life is too short to be little.”
- “There is only one way to happiness,” Epictetus taught the Romans, “and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”
- “When we have accepted the worst, we have nothing more to lose. And that automatically means—we have everything to gain!”
- “Our life is what our thoughts make it.”
- “I wasn’t interested in making a lot of money, but I was interested in making a lot of living.”
- “The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your losses. That requires intelligence; and it makes the difference between a man of sense and a fool.”
- “Plato said that “the greatest mistake physicians make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind; yet the mind and body are one and should not be treated separately”!”
- “I had the blues because I had no shoes, Until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.”
- “What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world—and loses his health?”
- “I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe that everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about?”
- “Those who keep the peace of their inner selves in the midst of the tumult of the modern city are immune from nervous diseases.”
- “A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.”
- “Charles Evans Hughes, former Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, said: “Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry.” Yes, from dissipation of their energies—and worry because they never seem to get their work done.”
- “It is natural for people to forget to be grateful; so, if we go around expecting gratitude, we are headed straight for a lot of heartaches.”