How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

by Dale Carnegie

“Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.”

good thinking deals with causes and effects and leads to logical, constructive planning; bad thinking frequently leads to tension and nervous breakdowns.

‘One grain of sand at a time … One task at a time.’

“Every day is a new life to a wise man.”

“Think,” said Dante, “that this day will never dawn again.” Life is slipping away with incredible speed. We are racing through space at the rate of nineteen miles every second. Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession.

SALUTATION TO THE DAWN Look to this day! For it is life, the very life of life. In its brief course Lie all the verities and realities of your existence: The bliss of growth The glory of action The splendour of beauty, For yesterday is but a dream And tomorrow is only a vision, But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness And every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day! Such is the salutation to the dawn.

the worst features about worrying is that it destroys our ability to concentrate.

acceptance of what has happened is the first step in overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.”

“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.

What will happen to you and me if we resist the shocks of life instead of absorbing them? What will happen if we refuse to “bend like the willow” and insist on resisting like the oak? The answer is easy. We will set up a series of inner conflicts. We will be worried, tense, strained, and neurotic. If we go still further and reject the harsh world of reality and retreat into a dream world of our own making, we will then be insane.

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.

Cooperate with the inevitable.