Someone here said "To worry is to avoid being happy". Are there any other nice proverbs/golden maxims to say to someone who worries a lot?
2007-05-14 12:12:15 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones. ~Don Herold
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. ~Mark Twain
Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday. ~Author Unknown
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which will never happen. ~James Russel Lowell
If things go wrong, don't go with them. ~Roger Babson
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. ~Leo Buscaglia
Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. ~Benjamin Franklin
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep. ~Dale Carnegie
I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time. ~Charlie Brown (Charles Schulz)
Troubles are a lot like people - they grow bigger if you nurse them. ~Author Unknown
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today. ~E. Joseph Cossman
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. ~Wendell Berry, "The Peace of Wild Things"
People gather bundles of sticks to build bridges they never cross. ~Author Unknown
You can't wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time. ~Pat Schroeder
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. ~Elbert Hubbard, The Note Book, 1927
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere. ~Glenn Turner
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them. ~George Bernard Shaw, "Family Affection," Parents and Children, 1914
Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face. ~Nelson DeMille
For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe. ~Author Unknown
If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times. ~Dean Smith
It only seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying. ~Lucy Maud Montgomery
A hundredload of worry will not pay an ounce of debt. ~George Herbert
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey. ~Thomas A. Edison
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ~Swedish Proverb
2007-05-14 12:17:19 · answer #1 · answered by HearKat 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Not a proverb, but I've heard it said that worry is a wasted emotion.
Worry usually has no effect on the outcome of a situation; if something bothers one that much, they should take what action they can -- beyond that, just accept that what will be will be.
2007-05-14 19:17:42 · answer #2 · answered by Sels 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Try this proverb---“ Sitting on a donkey and worry won’t help”
The meaning: Rather than sit around worrying you should move on----resolving the problem.
2007-05-14 21:02:16 · answer #3 · answered by cheng 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This Bible verse never fails to lift up my spirits:
"So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."
- Mt 6:34
2007-05-15 10:00:11 · answer #4 · answered by Joeri 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Accept that either you cannot or should not affect the outcome of what it is that you are worrying about or take action!! (preferably without getting arrested :-)
2007-05-22 05:55:33 · answer #5 · answered by MI5 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.
Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and YOU WILL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOUL.
For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.
Matthew 11:28-30
2007-05-19 00:37:53 · answer #6 · answered by Douglas G 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
John 14: 1,2,3&4
"Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me.
In My Fathers house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.
And where I go you know, and the way you know."
2007-05-14 19:48:00 · answer #7 · answered by Gary B 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Don't worry, be happy...
Look to the future, leave all your worries behind...
Enough worrying today, tomorrow is another day...
2007-05-19 17:12:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
II Corinthians 7:5 We walk by faith, and not by sight.
2007-05-21 04:06:50 · answer #9 · answered by virginia m 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Worry is wasted energy. I believe that would help
2007-05-20 00:56:59 · answer #10 · answered by Rhabdite 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋