10 Thoughtful Quotes about Worry, Stress and Anxiety, brought to you by ARISE Life Skills & Training

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.

1. Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.  ~Mark Twain
2. Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which will never happen.  ~James Russel Lowell
3. Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen.  Keep in the sunlight.  ~Benjamin Franklin
4. 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
5. You can’t wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time.  ~Pat Schroeder
6. Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.  ~Christian Nevell Bovee
7. A hundredload of worry will not pay an ounce of debt.  ~George Herbert
8. 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
9. There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry… Yesterday and Tomorrow.  ~Robert Jones Burdette
10. 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  Drop It At The Door workshop.

Five Wise Quotes About Anger, Brought To You By ARISE Life Skills Curricula and Training

• A man is about as big as the things that make him angry -Winston Churchill
• Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger -Chinese proverb
• Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.  -Lyman Abbott
• Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, and eventually poisonous.  I have no desire to make my own toxins.  -Neil Kinnock
• Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.  -Marcus Antonius

Anger is a poisonous emotion.  Each moment you are angry, your heart races, your body tenses up, your mind shuts down and your immune system weakens. A life spent in anger and resentment is a life wasted.

It’s not always easy to let go of anger. People often need guidance on how to consciously choose peace over conflict. If you or someone you know needs help controlling your emotions, ARISE can help.  The CHOICES: Drop It At The Door program teaches participants how to shed negative emotions and stop the boomerang effect of stress and anxiety ricocheting between home and work. Stop bringing your troubles at home into the workplace and vice versa. Relax and choose your own thoughts.  It is possible.

For more information on the Drop It at The Door workshop or the ARISE Anger Management books, visit the ARISE Website.