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.”

twenty-one words from Thomas Carlyle

“Take no thought for the morrow.”

bad thinking frequently leads to tension and nervous breakdowns.

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

the words of Jesus: “Have no anxiety about the morrow”;

Sir William Osler: “Live in day-tight compartments.”

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

Shut the iron doors on the past and the future. Live in Day-tight Compartments.

“What is the worst that can possibly happen?”

“You do not get stomach ulcers from what you eat. You get ulcers from what is eating you.”

The most relaxing recreating forces are a healthy religion, sleep, music, and laughter. Have faith in God—learn to sleep well— Love good music—see the funny side of life— And health and happiness will be yours.

“Face the facts: Quit worrying;

I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew): Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who. RUDYARD KIPLING

“If a man will devote his time to securing facts in an impartial, objective way, his worries will usually evaporate in the light of knowledge.”

“A problem well stated is a problem half solved.”

No time for worry! That is exactly what Winston Churchill said when he was working eighteen hours a day at the height of the war. When he was asked if he worried about his tremendous responsibilities, he said, “I’m too busy. I have no time for worry.”

“The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not

The masters of jujitsu teach their pupils to “bend like the willow; don’t resist like the oak.”

“Try to bear lightly what needs must be.”

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.

“Wise men ne’er sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.”

Emerson said: “A man is what he thinks about all day long.” How

William James: “Much of what we call Evil … can often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer’s inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight.”

Sticks and stones may break my bones, But words can never hurt me.

“Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.”

Let’s never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let’s do as General Eisenhower does: let’s never waste a minute thinking about people we don’t like.

“Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation. You do not find it among gross people.”

If we want to find happiness, let’s stop thinking about gratitude or ingratitude and give for the inner joy of giving.

‘I had the blues because I had no shoes, Until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.’

I Wanted to See.

Borghild Dahl. Need to read this book

Let’s not imitate others. Let’s find ourselves and be ourselves.

“Always remember that it takes a bigger man to walk away from a fight than it does to stay and fight.”

Forget yourself by becoming interested in others. Every day do a good deed that will put a smile of joy on someone’s face.

Santayana’s words: “Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.”