We live in a stressful world. For centuries, people have been dealing with anxiety and worry. Dwelling on negativity and worry leaves you open to health problems. Keep in mind: most things we worry about never come to fruition. Just breathe, think about the things you’re grateful for and read over these 10 quotes to help ease your mind.
- Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. ~Mark Twain
- Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which will never happen. ~James Russel Lowell
- Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. ~Benjamin Franklin
- I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal – and soon they’ll forget my number. ~Edith Armstrong
- You can’t wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time. ~Pat Schroeder
- Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination. ~Christian Nevell Bovee
- A hundredload of worry will not pay an ounce of debt. ~George Herbert
- Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three – all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have. ~Edward Everett Hale
- There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry… Yesterday and Tomorrow. ~Robert Jones Burdette
- We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth’s creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives. ~Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail, 1979
For more information on how to reduce stress, anxiety and worry in your life, try taking our CHOICES: Drop It At The Door workshop.
