How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

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:

“I live every day as if it were the first day I had ever seen and the last I were going to see.”

“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.”

three rules to break the worry habit: Rule 1. Find out precisely what is the problem you are worrying about. Rule 2. Find out the cause of the problem. Rule 3. Do something constructive at once about solving the problem

It is good to know that we have hit bottom and survived. That makes all our daily problems seem easy by comparison.

I soon found that I couldn’t worry about myself and laugh at myself at one and the same time. So I’ve been laughing at myself ever since.

at some of your sillier worries, and see if you can’t laugh them out of existence.

I soon found that I couldn’t worry about myself and laugh at myself at one and the same time. So I’ve been laughing at myself ever since. The point of this is: Don’t take yourself too seriously. Try “just laughing” at some of your sillier worries, and see if you can’t laugh them out of existence.

Don’t take yourself too seriously. Try “just laughing” at some of your sillier worries, and see if you can’t laugh them out of existence.

“What a fool you are to be worrying about something than hasn’t happened and may never happen. Life is short. I <You have reached the clipping limit for this item>