quotations about worry & worrying
While many people think they are just worriers, they do not realize that they actually worry for a reason. Their worry is an attempt to protect themselves! If you're wondering how such a nagging, persistent, annoying, and sometimes distressing psychological state can be helpful, you're probably not alone. It turns out that worrying about something puts your mind into a negative state, but this helps, because when something negative does happen, you don't feel that much worse. You've already been feeling bad.
SRINI PILLAY
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"Managing worry in generalized anxiety disorder", Harvard Health Publications, February 17, 2016
Worry is like a rocking chair--it keeps you busy but gets you nowhere.
KATIE DALE
Someone Else's Life
Worrying is not fun; worrying is very draining. Ever notice how during and after you've worried over something, how very drained you feel both mentally and physically? Worrying is very detrimental to the human body. This is called stress, and stress will either mutate or kill the very cells of your physical body.
NATHAN WHITING
A Journey of Remembering: While Seeking the Ultimate Love
Worrying is the magical thinking that worrying can prevent disaster. Worrying is anxiety in control. Worrying is belief in anxiety as some kind of god. Worrying is making stress and conflict now for imagined stress and conflict in the future. Worrying mistakes anxiety for action.
KEVIN EVERETT FITZMAURICE
Attitude Is All You Need!
Even if we can change some aspect of the things we worry about, worrying is not the way to do it.
MICHAEL OLPIN & MARGIE HESSON
Stress Management for Life: A Research-Based Experiential Approach
One of the worst features about worrying is that it destroys our ability to concentrate. When we worry, our minds jump here and there and everywhere, and we lose all power of decision. However, when we force ourselves to face the worst and accept it mentally, we then eliminate all these vague imaginings and put ourselves in a position in which we are able to concentrate on our problem.
WILLIS H. CARRIER
attributed, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
Worry is an unproductive, useless form of fear, and that makes it, by definition, unhealthy.
MAXIE MAULTSBY JR.
Ebony, February 1981
Worrying is a sort of security blanket for us. It keeps us moving and is a constant part of our conscious. This is also one of the biggest struggles of overthinking everything. We worry about problems that aren't relevant and that may or may not emerge in the future.
TANZEELA SAREEA
"The Daily Struggles People Who Overthink Everything Know All Too Well", Elite Daily, March 20, 2017
Worrying is only useful if it makes us aware of something that needs to be remedied, allows us to resolve the situation and move on. It is bad for us when it constantly fills our mind and we take no action or remain preoccupied. It wastes time and energy.
SARAH MCNAMARA
Helping Young People to Beat Stress
Face it: Your brain can be a pretty crazy place. All kinds of things bounce around in there. And you're usually pretty good at culling the wacky thoughts. But then you get worried.... And your brain starts multiplying negative possibilities like crazy. And you make the mistake of taking them seriously. Every. Single. One.
ERIC BARKER
"Ancient wisdom: How the Buddhists and Stoics stay emotionally strong", The Week, March 30, 2017
To worry is to miss the purpose of one's being: it is to fail--to fail for self, to fail for others, and it is to fail gratuitously.
CALEB WILLIAMS SALEEBY
Worry: The Disease of the Age
What does worry accomplish except to breed more worry?
DEAN KOONTZ
Odd Apocalypse
Worry is forethought gone to seed.
WILLIAM GEORGE JORDAN
The Improvement Era, vol. 11, 1908
Worrying is exactly how you manifest what you don't want.
JAFREE OZWALD
The Manifesting Manual
Worry is an intrusion into God's providence.
JOHN EDMUND HAGGAI
attributed, The Westminster Collection of Christian Quotations
Many of us worry about all kinds of things: Work, relationships, money, health. Some concerns are real, but many are unnecessary. No matter what kind of worry you have, the response in your body is always the same: It increases your cortisol levels. And an increased cortisol level is something you definitely do not want. Cortisol compromises your immune system. As a result, you will become more susceptible to disease. Researchers have also found a relationship between cortisol and diabetes, osteoporosis, and heart disease. Also, stress and fear can cause depression, bipolar disorder, panic disorder, and burn-out. Let's face it: If you don't stop worrying, you will die. That's not me talking. That's your body talking.
DARIUS FOROUX
"If You Worry A Lot, You Need To Read This", Huffington Post, February 19, 2016
Worry: the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
GEORGE W. LYON
attributed, Phillips' Treasury of Humorous Quotations
Worry is the admission of incompetence silently to oneself.
WILLIAM ESTABROOK CHANCELLOR
The Health of the Teacher
People believe that since they have worried about a particular thing that didn't happen, their worrying alone was like the magical ounce of prevention.
CHRIS BENSON
"Dr. Maxie Maultsby Says: Stop Worrying and Get On With Your Life", Ebony, February 1981
Worry is common. Everybody worries once in a while when they're faced with a serious problem and aren't too sure of a solution. Worry itself becomes a problem if you worry constantly or if the worry causes more distress than resolution.
HOLLY HAZLETT-STEVENS
Women Who Worry Too Much