Worry chews up energy

• Worry is just curdled energy! Henie Reisinger
• A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. John Lubbock
• You’ve already put more than enough energy into worry. That’s all women have been allowed to do, historically. Ani DiFranco
• We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies. Etty Hillesum
• Work kills no one, but worry has killed multitudes… Worry not only saps vitality and wastes energy, but it also seriously affects the quality of one’s work. It cuts down ability. A man cannot get the highest quality of efficiency into his work when his mind is troubled. The mental faculties must have perfect freedom before they will give out their best. A troubled brain cannot think clearly, vigorously, and logically. Orison S. Marden
• There are very few things in the mind which eat up as much energy as worry. It is one of the most difficult things not to worry about anything. Worry is experienced when things go wrong, but in relation to past happenings it is idle merely to wish that they might have been otherwise. The frozen past is what it is, and no amount of worrying is going to make it other than what it has been. But the limited ego-mind identifies itself with its past, gets entangled with it and keeps alive the pangs of frustrated desires. Meher Baba

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Worry is wasted energy

• Worry is pointless. It is wasted mental energy. Neale Donald Walsch
• Worry is a complete waste of energy. It solves nothing. Charles R. Swindoll
• Time goes by so fast and worry is really wasted time and energy. Dana Perino
• It takes the same amount of energy to worry as it does to believe. Joel Osteen
• Worry is a complete cycle of inefficient thought revolving about a pivot of fear. Ten Boom
• Worry will never solve tomorrow’s problems. It will only take energy away from today. James Altucher
• Worrying is wasted time. Use the same energy for doing something about whatever worries you. Oprah Winfrey
• Worry is a waste of energy. It cant change the past. It cant control the future. It only makes today miserable Rick Warren
• Worry is a waste of energy. It cant change the past. It cant control the future. It only makes today miserable. Rick Warren
• Worry can convince you that it is impossible to do what you want to do. Worrying wastes time and energy. Use your mind instead to try to make some positive effort. … Give your troubles to God. Paramahansa Yogananda
• Nothing wastes more energy than worrying. The longer one carries a problem, the heavier it becomes. Don’t take life too seriously. Live a life full of serenity, not of regrets. Douglas Pagels
• Worry has never done anyone any good, and it is very much worse than mere dissipation of psychic energy, for it substantially curtails the joy and fullness of life. Meher Baba
• Worry is just about the worst form of mental activity there is—next to hate, which is deeply self destructive. Worry is pointless. It is wasted mental energy. It also creates bio- chemical reactions which harm the body, producing everything from indigestion to coronary arrest, and a multitude of things in between. Neale Donald Walsch
• Fear’s useless. Either something bad happens or it doesn’t: If it doesn’t, you’ve wasted time being afraid, and if it does, you’ve wasted time that you could have spent sharpening your weapons. Sarah Rees Brennan
• Furthermore, worrying about people and problems doesn’t help. It doesn’t solve problems, it doesn’t help other people, and it doesn’t help us. It is wasted energy. Melody Beattie
• Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn’t you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn’t most of them turn out all right after all? Dale Carnegie
• When you are just thinking a lot of silly thoughts and having a lot of worries, you waste a tremendous energy and power and you put yourself into very limited states of mind. You slow down your evolutionary process. Frederick Lenz
• Worry is just about the worst form of mental activity there is-next to hate, which is deeply self destructive. Worry is pointless. It is wasted mental energy. It also creates bio-chemical reactions which harm the body, producing everything from indigestion to coronary arrest, and a multitude of things in between. Neale Donald Walsch
• The more energy you spend worrying about the people who didn’t get on your bus, the less you will have for the people who are on your bus. And if you are worrying about the people who didn’t get on your bus you won’t have the energy to keep on asking new people to get on. Jon Gordon

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Worry is counter-productive

• Stop giving energy to the things you don’t want. Wayne Dyer
• Worrying is using your imagination to create something you don’t want. Esther Hicks

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Worry doesn’t solve anything

• Worry is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do but it doesn’t get you any where. Zen proverb
• A hundredload of worry will not pay an ounce of debt. George Herbert
• Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose. Eckhart Tople
• Worry is like a rocking chair–it gives you something to do but it doesn’t get you anywhere. Dorothy Galyean
• Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? Matthew 6:27
• Don’t get your knickers in a knot. Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny.  Kathryn Carpenter
• It only seems as if you are doing something when you’re worrying. Lucy Maud Montgomery
• Recognize the preposterousness of worry. Ask yourself over and over, ‘Is there anything that will ever change as a result of my worrying about it? Wayne Dyer
• If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system. William James
• Know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 pm on some idle Tuesday.  Mary Schmich
• Worry is rust upon the blade. Henry Ward Hughes
• And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to the span of life? Jesus Christ
• There is always sufficient reason for despair, but there is never sufficient purpose. Robert Brault
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Worry is to gun the engine of the mind while keeping the foot on the brake

• Worrying is like sitting in your car in your garage with the engine running, thinking about being chased down the road by the bad guys. You will gun your engine as though it were really happening, but all you are really accomplishing is burning gas, filling the air with smoke, and wearing out your engine, all to no purpose. Roger Stephens
• Remember that every time you worry, you put on a mental brake; and in struggling against that resistance, you place strain on your heart and mind. You wouldn’t try to drive off in your car with the brake on, because you know it would severely damage the mechanism. Worry is the brake on the wheels of your efforts; it brings you to a dead stop. Nothing is impossible, unless you think it is. Worry can convince you that it is impossible to do what you want to do. Worrying wastes time and energy. Use your mind instead to try to make some positive effort. … Give your troubles to God. Paramahansa Yogananda

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Worrying can sometimes be a self-fulfilling prophecy and make matters worse

• The task of worrying is to come up with positive solutions for life’s perils by anticipating dangers before they arise. If we are preoccupied by worries, we have that must less attention to expend on figuring out the answers. Our worries become self- fulfilling prophecies, propelling us toward the very disaster they predict. Daniel Goleman
• Clearly understand, there isn’t any situation that isn’t made worse by worry. Worry never solves anything. Worry never prevents anything. Worry never heals anything. Worry serves only one purpose… it makes matters worse. Bob Procter
• All the problems you face today are going to go away, unless you worry them to stay. Problems like worry. Worry is a magnet for them. If you just “let it be,” the current worrisome condition will not even be part of your life a short time from now. If you worry enough about it, however, you can be sure that it will stick around.  Neale Donald Walsch
• Worrying is praying for what you don’t want. Geraldine Evans
• Worry is a prayer for chaos. Gabrielle Bernstein
• Worry is the interest which we pay on trouble before it comes, and we attract trouble every time we worry about it. Albert E. Cliffe

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Therefore, don’t waste your energy on worries

• Don’t use your energy to worry. Use your energy to believe. Joel Osteen
• Never waste energy on worries or negative thoughts, all problems are brought into existence -drop them. Bruce Lee
• If you can fix the thing that worries you, then fix it, otherwise don’t waste precious time or energy on it. Colleen Grant
• All things happen in their proper time. Everything in life happens in the time allocated for it. Don’t waste energy worrying about end results. Worrying only distracts you from living day to day and enjoying life! James Van Praagh
• Whatever life may send your way – make the best of it. Don’t waste your time and energy worrying about it. Instead, find a way to do something about it. Learn from it, adjust to it, be strong, be flexible and be your best in every situation. Les Brown
• My father always told me, ‘Don’t waste energy worrying about things you can’t control. Spend your energy focusing on solutions’. Jared Kushner
• Whatever life may send your way – make the best of it. Don’t waste your time and energy worrying about it. Instead, find a way to do something about it. Learn from it, adjust to it, be strong, be flexible and be your best in every situation. Les Brown
• One ought to avoid all unnecessary worry and exciting thoughts, and to cultivate a firm tranquility of mind. Melancholy reflections will in no way influence fate, whereas one may weaken the constitution by the waste of energy while indulging in them. George Hackenschmidt
• Don’t worry about what you can’t control. Our focus and energy needs to be on the things we CAN control. Attitude, effort, focus- these are the things we can control. Tim Tebow
• That’s something I have to work on: to separate what really matters, to conserve energy by not worrying about what other people think. Benedict Cumberbatch

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Let go of your worries

• The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal centre of energy, which I have analyzed so often; and the chief wonder of it is that it so often comes about, not by doing, but by simply relaxing and throwing the burden down. William James

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Focus on today, not future worries

• A medicine cat has no time for doubt. Put your energy into today and stop worrying about the past. Erin Hunter
• If I live expending my energy worrying about other people’s perceptions, then I’m missing my moment. Demi Moore

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Solutions to worries arise only when we raise our energy to higher levels of consciousness

• If we can bring spiritual energy, which is love, kindness, forgiveness and so on, to the problem, we can dissolve it. It’s really just a matter of changing our mind about how we’re going to process the events in our lives. Wayne Dyer
• Thinking the same worried thoughts over and over rarely is fruitful. It is when we shift our level of consciousness away from fear towards love that solutions to our problems arise. Anthony Lambert
• You can’t use stress, anxiety, frustration, and worry to deal with your stress, anxiety, frustration, and worry. It’s like pulling up to a burning building with a flame thrower. The energy of the problem can’t be the energy behind a successful solution. Bill Crawford

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To cease worrying is to release energy for living

• When we stop fighting the inevitable, we release energy which allows us to create a richer life. Elsie MacCormick
• Pause and remember – You will have a lot more time and energy to spend on yourself when you stop worrying and wasting time on how others need to change. Jennifer Young
• If we used the mental energy we expend in worry and fear to get out and find out about what we do not know, we would see our self-confidence grow. Lack of self-confidence is not overcome by faith, but by action. Laurence Boldt
• Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy managing their LIVES. I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out. Reese Witherspoon

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Realise there is nothing to worry about

• Basically, there is simply nothing to worry about, because you yourself are the eternal energy of the universe. Alan Watts