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“My life was almost ruined by it. Before I learned to conquer worry, I lived through eleven years of self-made hell. I was irritable and hot-tempered. I lived under terrific tension.
‘Relax. Let’s think this out.... What are you really worrying about? Let’s examine the law of averages and see whether or not it is likely to happen.’
American history says in his Autobiography that “nearly all of our worries and unhappiness come from our imagination and not from reality.”
“Let’s examine the record.” Let’s ask ourselves: “What are the chances, according to the law of averages, that this event I am worrying about will ever occur?” ***
“Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.”
that we must accept and cooperate with the inevitable.
circumstances alone do not make us happy or unhappy. It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings.
We are stronger than we think.
For it is in the mind we see, and in the mind we live, whether we know it or not.”
It taught him acceptance. It taught him that nothing life could bring him was beyond his strength to endure.
confront night, storms, hunger, Ridicule, accident, rebuffs as the trees and animals do.
The animals confront night, storms, and hunger calmly; so they never have nervous breakdowns or stomach ulcers; and they never go insane.
“I wouldn’t worry if I lost every dollar I have because I don’t see what is to be gained by worrying. I do the best job I possibly can; and leave the results in the laps of the gods.”
“When I can’t handle events,” he said, “I let them handle themselves.”
“When I am up against a tough situation, if I can do anything about it, I do it. If I can’t, I just forget
it. I never worry about the future, because I know no man living can possibly figure out what is going to happen in the future.
“There is only one way to happiness,” Epictetus taught the Romans, “and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”
“When we stop fighting the inevitable,” said Elsie MacCormick in a Reader’s Digest article, “we release energy which enables us to create a richer life.”
if we learn to absorb the shocks and jolts along the rocky road of life.
Finally, I overcame my worry and fears by forcing myself to accept an inevitable situation.
God grant me the serenity To accept the things I cannot change, The courage to change the things I can; And the wisdom to know the difference.
to put stop-loss orders on my impatience, on my temper, on my desire for self-justification, on my regrets, and on all my mental and emotional strains.
“See here, Dale Carnegie, this situation is worth just so much fussing about and no more? ...
we are fools when we overpay for a thing in terms of what it takes out of our very existence.
Lincoln’s forgiving spirit.
conceive that a great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles.”
reasons was their burning desire to impress you and me. Yes, we are the posterity whose opinion they were worried about!
greatest secrets to true peace of mind—a decent sense of values.
standard—a gold standard of what things are worth to us in terms of our lives.
How much does this thing I am worrying about really matter to me? At what point shall I set a “stop-loss” order on this worry and forget it? Exactly how much shall I pay for this whistle? Have I already paid more than it is worth? ***
There is only one way on God’s green footstool that the past can be constructive; and that is by calmly analyzing our past mistakes and profiting by them—and forgetting them.
should have analyzed my mistakes and teamed a lasting lesson.
However, knowledge isn’t power until it is applied;
“It’s already sawed! And it’s the same with the past. When you start worrying about things that are over and done with, you’re merely trying to saw sawdust.”
He did it by accepting and writing off his defeat and then concentrating on plans for the future.
“Wise men ne’er sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.”
we have been guilty of blunders and absurdities! And so what? Who hasn’t? Even Napoleon lost one third of all the important battles he fought.
“A man is what he thinks about all day long.”...How could he possibly be anything else?
“Our life is what our thoughts make it.”
Norman Vincent Peale, “you are not what you think you are; but what you think, you are.”
I am advocating that we assume a positive attitude instead of a negative attitude.
difference between concern and worry?
Concern means realizing what the problems are and calmly taking steps to meet them. Worrying means going around in maddening, and futile circles.
He thought positive, courageous thoughts and refused to let defeat him.
Our mental attitude has an almost unbelievable effect even on our physical powers.
J.A. Hadfield,
54-page booklet: The Psycholo...
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When their minds were filled with positive thoughts of strength, they increased their actual physical powers almost fifty per cent.
magic power of thought,
“the science of mind healing.”
