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Post by disorganizeddragon on Sept 10, 2012 1:16:54 GMT -5
"Worry is like a rocking-chair. It gives you something to do but gets you nowhere.”--(see below)*
*The above quote has been equally attributed to Erma Bombeck, Wayne Bennett, and Glenn Turner. Since I cannot be certain which one actually said or wrote it, I'm giving all three of them credit.
"We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them."--Phyllis Bottome
"The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react."--George Bernard Shaw
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Post by ramatama on Sept 10, 2012 12:41:35 GMT -5
"There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today."--Mignon McLaughlin precisely!!! but Mignon McLaughlin also wrote: The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Sept 11, 2012 0:00:21 GMT -5
"There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today."--Mignon McLaughlin precisely!!! but Mignon McLaughlin also wrote: The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.Ramatama, that's a great quote--and so true.
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Sept 11, 2012 0:08:03 GMT -5
"Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning."--Winston Churchill
“Work is the tonic for worry, but good planning can be a cure.”--Gary Rudz
"Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned."--Peter Marshall
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Sept 12, 2012 0:10:14 GMT -5
“Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.”--Honoré de Balzac
"I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us."--Dorothy Day
"I try not to worry about the future--so I take each day just one anxiety attack at a time."--Tom Wilson
"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."--John Wooden
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Sept 13, 2012 0:54:58 GMT -5
“If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.” --Dalai Lama XIV
"When we commit to action, to actually doing something rather than feeling trapped by events, the stress becomes manageable."--Greg Anderson
"A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work."--John Lubbock
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Sept 14, 2012 4:48:59 GMT -5
"If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying."--Dale Carnegie
“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls."--Joseph Campbell
"Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is started, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance."--Robert Collier
"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
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Post by ramatama on Sept 14, 2012 7:34:10 GMT -5
oh that George Burns...I miss the man so...
my uncle used to quote this from him:
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. --George Burns
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Sept 15, 2012 1:47:33 GMT -5
oh that George Burns...I miss the man so... my uncle used to quote this from him: Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. --George Burns
That is a great quote. I love it!
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Sept 15, 2012 1:54:12 GMT -5
"Worry is a misuse of imagination."--Dan Zadra
“Imagination means nothing without doing."--Charles Chaplin
"An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied."--Arnold Glasow
"If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today."--E. Joseph Cossman
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Sept 16, 2012 0:50:01 GMT -5
"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
"Many are called but few get up."--Oliver Herford
"Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway.”--Mary C. Crowley
"Each morning sees some task begun, Each evening sees it close... Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose." --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Sept 17, 2012 1:35:22 GMT -5
"That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change; but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent."--Chinese proverb
"Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out."--Italian proverb
"A pound a fret can't pay an ounce a debt."--Jamaican proverb
"Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare."--Japanese proverb
"Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.”--Swedish proverb
"When deeds speak, words are nothing."--African proverb
"A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain."--Arabian proverb
"Talk doesn't cook rice."--Chinese proverb
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Sept 18, 2012 1:15:17 GMT -5
“Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up.”--Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.”--Mitch Albom, Have a Little Faith: The Story of a Last Request
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Sept 19, 2012 1:22:08 GMT -5
"Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three--all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have."--Edward Everett Hale"We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays."--Persius"You can't wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time."--Pat Schroeder"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia."--Charles M. Schulz (A big 'Hello' to everyone Down Under... )
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Sept 20, 2012 1:15:28 GMT -5
"There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them."--Henry Wheeler Shaw
"Action makes more fortune than caution."--Luc de Clapiers
"There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something."--Trammell Crow
"Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.”--Henry Ward Beecher
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