The 7 Greatest Quotes To Help You Stop Worrying
We are all capable of worrying more than we should. It’s an entirely natural tendency for humans. After it becomes a strong enough habit, we don’t even have to try to do it—it just happens.
But worry is not helpful or healthful. We know this to be true but still, we so often default to it when the circumstances of life hit. Sometimes we just need a little motivation, or a new perspective, to help us overcome our worry trap.
Here are seven of the greatest quotes to help you stop worrying:
#1- “Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.” -Leo Buscaglia
Today is all we’ve got. The more that we worry about tomorrow, the less we live today. If we aren’t present in the moment of today we won’t experience the joy life has to offer, period. Unfortunately, so many of us spend every day worrying about tomorrow. Where does that leave us if we never spend a day in the present? A life without joy.
#2- “The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.” -Wayne Dyer
The time you spend worrying is only keeping your from pro-actively solving what concerns you. It paralyzes you from any positive action at all! Instead of worrying about what could go wrong spend your time empowering yourself to help it go right. This is a much more productive use of time.
#3- “No amount of regretting can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future.” -Roy T. Bennett
We can throw all of the worry we can at something and it still won’t change the outcome. If anything, our constant attention on the possibility of the worst coming true often ensures it. Worry is a futile exercise because it has a zero-percent chance of positive influence.
#4 “If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn’t ask me, I’d still have to say it.” -George Burns
George Burns lived to be 100 years old. I think that gives his words some credibility. As one of the twentieth century’s most successful comedians, it seems he preferred to laugh his way through life rather than worry about it. It’s obvious his perspective is quite on-the-money when it comes to the dangers of worry.
#5- “A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.” -John Lubbock
This is why people are so tired all of the time. Worry places additional stress on our bodies that results in less energy and lower resistance to sickness. When we compulsively worry we begin to wear ourselves down. Each day’s weariness builds on another until finally we have a breakdown, crashed out in bed or on the couch all weekend. When Monday morning rolls around we crawl out of bed to try to tackle it all over again.
#6- “Don’t worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too.” -Walter Annenberg
Even the best of us won’t have perfect outcomes all the time so why worry? If Babe Ruth struck out then so will you So what? One of the beautiful things about being human is that we can make mistakes. Rather than concern yourself too much about it, realize even the best have their off days.
#7- “When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.” – Winston Churchill
It’s true. So many of the things I have worried about have never happened. I will spend all day or a week concerned about something and the situation resolves itself without any issue. Sure, the relief is overwhelming and welcome at that moment comes but in the meantime, I’ve missed out on a much more enjoyable time.
What is your favorite quote to help you stop worrying?
Aaron Force is a blogger from Seattle, Washington. He writes to help others find their purpose, get unstuck, and impact the world. These goals are important to him because these were all struggles that he faced himself and knew the frustrations of first-hand. In the spring of 2015, he experienced a spiritual calling that clarified these questions for him. It is his purpose now to help others find that same clarity so that they too may begin to “live their most powerful life.”
Aaron Force is a blogger from Seattle, Washington. He writes to educate others about the nature of an expanded consciousness to evolve humanity. Aaron unexpectedly experienced his own profound awakening and ego transcendence in 2015 and soon understood that the qualities of his own experience (a greater expansion and evolution in his life) could be applied to mankind collectively.