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Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Ask yourself: How do I KNOW this thing I am worrying about will really come to pass?
“God created you and all your actions,”
But all of us must be able to see how our fates are often determined for us.
That philosophy has done more to settle my nerves than a thousand sedatives could have achieved.
They taught me the importance of enjoying life while you may. So I live every day now as if it were the first day I had ever seen and the last I were going to see.
“Sometimes when I have too many things to do all at once, I sit down and relax and smoke my pipe for an hour and do nothing.”
“I stood yesterday. I can stand today. And I will not permit myself to think about what might happen tomorrow.”
no woman who has had an easy life ever acquires. I
An old saying of my mother’s came back: “Don’t cry over spilt milk.”
“Nothing is going to stop me. He is not going to hurt me. I won’t feel his blows. I can’t get hurt. I am going to keep going, no matter what happens.”
have never gone to bed in my life without saying a prayer; and I have never eaten a meal in my life without first thanking God for it ... Have my prayers been answered? Thousands of times!
“The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.” Keep active, keep busy!
never to fret over a problem until it is at least a week old. Of course,
“More than to anything else, I owe whatever success I have had to the power of settling down to the day’s work and trying to do it well to the best of my ability and letting the future take care of itself.”
“today was the tomorrow I had worried about yesterday”
