Why Worry

An Inspirational Thought, Motivational Thought -Think or Worry? By Harold B. Walker
You can think about your problems or you can worry about them, and there is a vast difference between the two. Worry is thinking that has turned toxic. It is jarring music that goes round and round and never comes to either climax or conclusion. Thinking works its way through problems to conclusions and decisions; worry leaves you in a state of tensely suspended animation. When you worry, you go over the same ground endlessly and come out the same place you started. Thinking makes progress from one place to another; worry remains static. The problem of life is to change worry into thinking and anxiety into creative action.

"As you grew, we helped you avoid unnecessary worry. As you leave, remember that 90% of what you worry about never happens." Catherine & Byron Pulsifer, from As You Grew

"When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened." Sir Winston Churchill

"Once a decision was made I did not worry about it afterward." Harry S. Truman
"Worrying about it takes precious time and attention away from your priorities and increases your feelings of dissatisfaction about life." Christina Winsey-Rudd, from Life Balance Coaching: Balance Work and Life Like a Pro

"Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have." Edward Everett Hale

"As soon as we stop worrying, a solution pops up. " David DeNotaris

"Ninety percent of the things we tend to worry about we have no control over, so why worry about them?" Author Unknown

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight." Benjamin Franklin

It is not work that kills, but worry." African Proverb

"Don't worry, be happy." Bobby McFerrin