How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

“If you have what seems to you insufficient,” said one of Rome’s greatest philosophers, Seneca, “then you will be miserable even if you possess the world.”

I didn’t mind wrestling with worries that gave me a fighting chance to solve them,

ninety-nine per cent of the things we worry and stew and fret about never happen,

today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

when I began to prepare a speech I didn’t know what the liberal arts were, but it didn’t matter much because my audience didn’t know. either.

These experiences demonstrated to me the vital importance of one’s mental attitude. They taught me the importance of enjoying life while you may. So I live every day now as if it were the first day I had ever seen and the last I were going to see. I am excited about the daily adventure of living, and nobody in a state of excitement will be unduly troubled with worries.

one of the chief reasons for success in life is enthusiasm.

depression and worry oozed out of my system with the sweat.

avoid the folly of hurry, rush, and working under tension.

“Sometimes when I have too many things to do all at once, I sit down and relax and smoke my pipe for an hour and do nothing.”

“Two months from now I shall not be worrying about this bad break, so why worry about it now?

“I live every day as if it were the first day I had ever seen and the last I were going to see.” 2. Read an interesting book:

“When I was terribly depressed, I forced myself to become physically active almost every hour of the day.”

“I stood yesterday. I can stand today.

I have learned not to expect too much of people, and so I can still get happiness out of the friend who isn’t quite true to me or the acquaintance who gossips.

I have acquired a sense of humour, because there were so many things over which I had either to cry or laugh.

I realised then that I alone was responsible for all my troubles.

By my becoming physically tired, my mind gets a rest from legal problems, so that when I return to them, my mind has a new zest and power.

Use your muscles more and your brain less when you are worried, and you will be surprised at the result.

“you ought to sit down and face the facts. If you devoted half as much time and energy to solving your problems as you do to worrying about them, you wouldn’t have any worries. Worrying is just a vicious habit you have learned.”