Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.
If we would keep filling our minds with the picture of happy things ahead, many worries and anxieties, and perhaps ill health, would naturally melt away.... Always expect the best. Then if you have to hurdle a few tough problems, you will have generated the strength and courage to do so.
Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry.
A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety.
A problem not worth praying about is not worth worrying about.
We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse. Harmful are these, and evil.
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.
Rule No. i is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule No. 2 is, it's all small stuff.
You'll break the worry habit the day you decide you can meet and master the worse that can happen to you.
Of course I realized there was a measure of danger. Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when I first considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it again.
The worst is not so long as we can say, "This is the worst."
What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.
When you first learn to love hell, you will be in heaven.
A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen.
The expectation of an unpleasantness is more terrible than the thing itself.
Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.
Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience.
