Seriously, I AM a worrier; I’ve worried far too much in my life. And even though I KNOW it’s a completely pointless exercise I still do it far too often. And it makes my life a bit of a misery sometimes.

The good news is that I don’t worry as much as I used to.

The even better news – especially if you’re a worrier too – is that I’ve written an article showing you, me and everyone just HOW to stop worrying…

* I’ve got 3 inspirational worry quotes to help me along

* I’ve got years of worrying experience to draw on

* And I’ve developed an ability to communicate my wisdom (meaning your wisdom) one-to-one via the written word

So what can possibly go wrong, eh! (Y’know, I’m not gonna even imagine. I’m just going to trust the (creative) process and KNOW that your worrying (and mine) will reduce greatly just for having read/written this article.)

So let’s go, then, with the first inspirational quote about worrying…

Inspirational Worry Quote #1:

“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.”
– Leo F. Buscaglia

So, I’ve already said it once, but I think it bears repeating: worry really is pointless. Not only does it NOT achieve its stated intention – making tomorrow ‘better’ – but it clearly makes today much worse.

So why would anybody participate in an activity that achieves nothing tangible other than to make themselves miserable? And that’s a question to me, dear reader, as much as to you.

Here’s my answer – I’ve been thinking about this a long time, by the way – the answer is this: we think worrying protects us from ‘nasty experiences’.

The thing is, though, these so-called ‘nasty experiences’ are ALWAYS worse in our imaginations than in reality, and most often they never occur anyway.

But the real problem here is that we think we can’t handle the looming situation, and that’s why we make it ‘nasty’.

Yes, we worry because we are insecure, and unsure of our own strengths to handle what life brings us. Simple as that. And when I say we, I mean I. Because I’m sure you’re not daft enough to worry about nothing for the sake of it – surely not?

Hmm, so what are we to do here? Answer: recognise that WORRYING IS POINTLESS. And repeat it to ourselves each and every day. “Worrying is pointless. Worrying is pointless. Worrying is pointless…”

And if you can sing those words to a tune, then mores the better.

Another inspirational quote about worrying that pretty much says the same thing as Leo’s is this one by Glen Turner:

“Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.”
– Glenn Turner

More succinct, I guess, but now I’m worrying that those mighty fine editors at EzineArticles.com (ahem!) might not approve this ‘worry article’ you’re (hopefully!) reading as I’ve called it 3 Quotes to STOP Worrying but I’ve included 4! (Ooh dear, what am I to do!…)

Inspirational Worry Quote #2:

“Worry is like a signpost pointing in a direction you don’t want to go”
– Dr Rob Pennington

Now Dr Rob has great experience of worrying, so I hear. He even wrote a book about it – or rather, what to do instead of worrying – and it’s called “Find The Upside of the Down Times”.

And I quite like his business-focussed approach to not worrying. It’s pretty much saying, if you’re going to fantasise about your life – and worrying, as we’ve seen is nothing more than a gory fantasy – then you might as well fantasise on what you want, via the act of goal-setting and visualisations.

(I know you can’t get all of that from Dr Pennington’s worry quotation, I’m just reading between the lines. Trust me, there’s nothing to worry about here – this IS what Dr Rob is trying to say!)

So, next time you find yourself worrying, ask yourself why would anyone (especially you!) fantasize about going somewhere they don’t wanna go?

Instead of doing that, do this: FOCUS ON WHAT YOU WANT!

And when I say that, I’m pretty much hoping that you want good things to happen in your life – good experiences, good friendships, a good relationship etc. – rather than grim stuff!

Because nobody WANTS grim stuff in their life, do they?…

Inspirational Worry Quote #3:

“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
– Charles F. Kettering

Hmm, and no insightful look at worrying would be complete if it did not contain a spiritual approach, also.

Because maybe we like being foolish and engaging in pointless activities. Maybe we like to think of goals that are ghastly, too, or just don’t believe in setting nice goals – too much like hard work! And that’s okay, I guess (bear with me, here!). But we cannot deny the truth of what our worrying is really all about. And it is this:

Worry: a psychological fear of how something (‘imaginary’) is going to make us feel.

Yep, we’re not really worrying about the event. We’re worrying about how that event will make us feel afterwards. Repeat: it’s not the event that’s important, but our feelings of the event.

And, as Charles F. so brilliantly puts it, YOU (and I) have the power inside us at any time to change how we feel about something.

Events will always happen that we like and that we don’t like. That’s life, to use a cliche somewhat appropriately. So our challenge is ONLY to understand that we can CONTROL OUR THOUGHTS and feelings. We need not fear them at all, we really needn’t.

For the truth is that we are all powerful enough to bear the good, bad and indifferent things that come our way, we really are. WE CAN COPE; there really is no need to fear that we can’t.

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End of this worry article. All 3 quotes used up. Written communication between you and I nearly over. And… 5-4-3-2-1 back in the room, you no longer worry! Snap.

You now see that worrying is pointless. You now see that worrying takes you in the opposite direction to where you want to go. And you now see that worrying is a lie, because it’s not the event that we fear but the feelings about that event.

You now see all this, I know you do. And that’s why I know, repeat KNOW, that you WILL worry less from now on.

And, no, I’m not worried that you won’t stop worrying, I’m not. I believe in you, I really do (just like you do).

AUTHOR RESOURCE BOX

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Bill Cosby

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I’m afraid it did.
Bette Davis

The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.
Jay Leno

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Winston Churchill

To find out a girl’s faults, praise her to her girl friends.
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Oscar Wilde

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Milton Berle

Carpe per diem – seize the check.
Robin Williams

A young man fills out an application for a job and does well until he gets to the last question, “Who Should we notify in case of an accident?” He mulls it over and then writes, “Anybody in sight!”.
Milton Berle

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you’re still a rat.
Lily Tomlin

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.
Mark Twain

A man’s got to believe in something. I believe I’ll have another drink.
W.C. Fields

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
Abraham Lincoln

Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.
Oscar Wilde

He taught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the house.
Zsa Zsa Gabor

Men can read maps better than women. Cause only the male mind could conceive of one inch equalling a hundred miles.
Roseanne Barr

A man in the house is worth two in the street.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
Mel Brooks

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Winston Churchill

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde

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Erma Bombeck

I’m an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.
Carl Sandburg

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Rita Rudner

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Quentin Crisp

When doctors and undertakers meet, they wink at each other.
W.C. Fields

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The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Albert Einstein

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Robert Frost

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W.C. Fields

Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.
Mark Twain

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God heals and the doctor takes the fee.
Benjamin Franklin

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Oscar Wilde

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Robert McCLoskey

Of all the things I’ve lost, I miss my mind the most.
Mark Twain

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George Bernard Shaw

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
Benjamin Franklin

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Jerry Seinfeld

There are three kinds of lies; lies, damned lies and statistics
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
Oscar Wilde

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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Robert Frost

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Drew Barrymore

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Tom Snyser

I’m trying to read a book on how to relax, but I keep falling asleep.
Jim Loy

Women: Can’t live with them, can’t bury them in the back yard without the neighbours seeing.
Sean Williamson

It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
Muhammad Ali

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.
Paul Harvey

Be yourself. Who else is better qualified.
Frank Giblin II

The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing — and then marry him.
Cher

I can last two months on a good compliment.
Mark Twain

They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol

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Eric Hoffer

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Until I was thirteen, I thought my name was ‘shut up.’
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It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
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All kids are gifted; some just open their packages earlier than others.
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If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question.
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Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
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There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.
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If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong

A peacock who rests on its feathers is just another turkey.
Dolly Parton

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
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What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle

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Henry David Thoreau

But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.
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“I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.”
Walt Whitman

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”
Goethe

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Alice Walker

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Mahatma Gandhi

“Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.” Mark Twain

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Anaïs Nin

“Friendship is essentially a partnership.”
Aristotle

“True friendship’s laws are by this rule express’d, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.”
Alexander Pope

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.
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The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Aristotle

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What! You, too? Thought I was the only one.”
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“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.”
Aristotle

All love that has not friendship for its base, Is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.”
Epicurus

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“Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness…”
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“You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.”
Woodrow Wilson

It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.
E.R. Bulwer-Lytton

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.
Oscar Wilde

Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt

“Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
Katherine Mansfield

“A faithful friend is the medicine of life.”
Apocrypha

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking
George Eliot

“The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man’s success in life.”
Edward Everett Hale 

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?
Henry David Thoreau

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Henry Ward Beecher

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain

The bird a nest the spider a web the human friendship.
William Blake

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.
Thomas Jefferson

It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
Zora Neale Hurston

“Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes

A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.
La Rochefoucauld

“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The holy passion of friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring in nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
Mark Twain:

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.
Thomas Wilson

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
Mohandas K. Gandhi

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Epicurus

Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
Abraham Lincoln

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend
Robert Louis Stevenson

How does one keep from “growing old inside”? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people…. Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable.
Robert McAfee Brown

“Friends show their love in times of trouble…”
Euripides

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
Sir Francis Bacon

Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.
Samuel Johnson

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
Seneca

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mohandas K. Gandhi

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
Wayne Dyer

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Albert Schweitzer

Think of all the beauty thats still left in and around you and be happy!
Anne Frank

You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
Bette Davis

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Albert Camus

“Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.”
Mildred Barthel

Whoever is happy will make others happy, too.
Mark Twain

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
HH the Dalai Lama: 

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
Epictetus

It is a sad thing to look at happiness only through another’s eyes
Marquerite Blessington

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddha

Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

…happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it…
Aristotle

Happiness is man’s greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness.
Epicurus

Happiness is a journey, not a destination; happiness is to be found along the way not at the end of the road, for then the journey is over and it’s too late. The time for happiness is today not tomorrow.”
Paul H Dunn

Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours…. never doubt the excellence and permanence of what is yet to be. Join the great company of those who make the barren places of life fruitful with kindness…. Your success and happiness lie in you…. The great enduring realities are love and service…. Resolve to keep happy and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
Helen Keller

Being happy is something you have to learn. I often surprise myself by saying “Wow, this is it. I guess I’m happy. I got a home I love. A career that I love. I’m even feeling more and more at peace with myself.” If there’s something else to happiness, let me know. I’m ambitious for that, too
Harrison Ford

Happiness is something final and complete in itself, as being the aim and end of all practical activities whatever …. Happiness then we define as the active exercise of the mind in conformity with perfect goodness or virtue.
Aristotle

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means — either may do — the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
Benjamin Franklin

Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
Dale Carnegie

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
Leo Buscaglia

Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.
Helen Keller

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
Bertrand Russell

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
Aristotle

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo

“Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don’t set any condition.”
Arthur Rubinstein

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.
Mark Twain

Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.
Ann Radcliffe

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.
John Barrymore

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one’s life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
George Santayana

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
James Oppenheim

The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible to-day.
Charles W. Eliot

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Marcus Aurelius

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
John Stuart Mill

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
Helen Keller

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.
Albert Einstein

Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Sigmund Freud

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark Twain

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Denis Waitley

To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.
Malcolm Forbes

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Oscar Wilde

Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don’t collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don’t really mean anything.
Norman Lear

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl Jung

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won’t hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.
Johnny Carson

The heart is the place where we live our passions. It is frail and easily broken, but wonderfully resilient. There is no point in trying to deceive the heart. It depends upon our honesty for its survival.
Leo Buscaglia

Where love is, no room is too small.
Talmud

When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.
Rita Rudner

“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
Les Miserables

Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
French Proverb

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved – loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo

If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don’t have it, no matter what else there is, it’s not enough.
Ann Landers

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Samuel Butler

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle

Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor… Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.
Mother Theresa

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
Sophocles

Thou art to me a delicious torment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

War is like love; it always finds a way
Bertolt Brecht

Love means having to say you’re sorry every five minutes.
Unknown Author

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age — as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.
Phyllis Diller

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Carl Jung

“And in the end, the love you take Is equal to the love you make.”
John Lennon and Paul McCartney

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
William Shakespeare

A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes superfluous.
Ingrid Bergmen

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu

Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time. What is obtained by hatred proves a burden in reality for it increases hatred.
Mohandas K. Gandhi

Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.
Nora Roberts

It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
Benjamin Disraeli

Don’t threaten me with love, Baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.
Billie Holiday

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
William Shakespeare

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.
Victor Hugo

“Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
Mark Twain

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer. To suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy then is to suffer. But suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you’re getting this down.
Woody Allen

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
Agnes Repplier

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.
William Shakespeare

If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
Lily Tomlin

Love can sweep you off your feet and carry you along in a way you’ve never known before. But the ride always ends, and you end up feeling lonely and bitter. Wait. It’s not love I’m describing. I’m thinking of a monorail
Jack Handey

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
Pablo Picasso

The Eskimos have perhaps 60 words in their language for the word snow. They would no doubt feel very cramped with just our one word, for it would fail to adequately describe the various manifestations of snow so important to them. Our language similarly tries to cram many meanings into the word love.
Be Your Own Therapist

Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.
Oscar Wilde

Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

I have found men who didn’t know how to kiss. I’ve always found time to teach them.
Mark Twain

In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.
Peter McWilliams 

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking. It is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.
I Corinthians 13:4-8

Perfect love is rare indeed – for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.
Leo Buscaglia

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about but few have seen.
Francois de La Rouchfoucauld

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
Marianne Williamson

A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendships, all the enjoyment of sense and reason – and indeed all the sweets of life.
Joseph Addison

Love’s gentle spring doth always fresh remain.
Shakespeare

Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that’s a real treat.
Joanne Woodward

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
Leo Tolstoy

There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Henry David Thoreau

I love being married. It’s so great to find one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Rita Rudner

Ah, how skillful grows the hand That obeyeth Love’s command! It is the heart and not the brain That to the highest doth attain, And he who followeth Love’s behest Far excelleth all the rest.
Henry W. Longfellow

For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
Ivan Panin

Accept the things To which fate binds you and Love the people with whom fate Brings you together But do so with all your heart
Marcus Aurelius

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

When life hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
Norman Vincent Peale

Act as if you have already achieved your goal and it is yours.
Dr. Robert Anthony

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Hugh Downs

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Norman Vincent Peale

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.
George Bernard Shaw

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
William James

You’ve done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.
Ralph Marston

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand-and melting like a snowflake..
Marie Beyon Ray

You are what you think about all day long.
Dr. Robert Schuller

Somehow I can’t believe that there are any heights that can’t be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret – curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.
Walt Disney

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.
Buddha

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill

You’ve done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.
Ralph Marston

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.
Willie Nelson

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
Oprah Winfrey

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
Mahatma Gandhi

What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one’s ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
Charles Victor Cherbuliez

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
Mahatma Gandhi

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life’s about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw

The reality of life is that your perceptions – right or wrong – influence everything else you do. When you get a proper perspective of your perceptions, you may be surprised how many other things fall into place.
Roger Birkman

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
Robert Louis Stevenson

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Samuel Johnson

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
Dr Wayne Dyer

When you get to the end of the rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Franklin D Roosevelt

Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
Muhammad Ali

Any fact facing us, however difficult, even seemingly hopeless, is not so important as our attitude towards that fact. How you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You may permit a fact to overwhelm you mentally before you deal with it actually. On the other hand, a confident and optimistic thought pattern can overcome or modify the fact altogether.
Norman Vincent Peale

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vintage point.
Harold B Melchart

Somehow I can’t believe that there are any heights that can’t be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret – curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.
Walt Disney

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds.
Norman Vincent Peale

Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden

Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.
Napoleon

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt

Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
St. Francis of Assisi

You’ve done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.
Ralph marston

I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street; I met a man who had no feet.
Ancient Persian Saying

Pessimist : A person who says that O is the last letter of ZERO, instead of the first letter in word OPPORTUNITY.
Anonymous

Your attitude, not your aptitude, determines your altitude.
Zig Ziglar

Many of life’s failures are people who had not realized how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas A Edison

Formal education will make you a living. Self education will make you a fortune.
Jim Rohn

Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for fewer problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom.
Earl Shoaf

A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.
William Arthur Ward

Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
Art Linkletter

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities – always see them, for they’re always there.
Norman Vincent Peale

The starting point of great success and achievement has always been the same. It is for you to dream big dreams. There is nothing more important, and nothing that works faster than for you to cast off your own limitations than for you to begin dreaming and fantasizing about the wonderful things that you can become, have, and do.
Brian Tracy

Ralph Lauren has always stood for providing quality products, creating worlds and inviting people to take part in our dream. We were the innovators of lifestyle advertisements that tell a story and the first to create stores that encourage customers to participate in that lifestyle.
Ralph Lauren

“There are those who work all day. Those who dream all day. And those who spend an hour dreaming before setting to work to fulfill those dreams. Go into the third category because there’s virtually no competition.”
Steven J Ross

Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain

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Encouraging Sayings

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”
Buddha quotes

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
Victor Hugo

That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles. That we can say what we think, write what we think, without hearing a sudden knock on the door. That we can have an idea and start our own business without paying a bribe or hearing a sudden knock on the door. That we can participate in the political process without fear of retribution, and that our votes will be counted-or at least, most of the time.
Barack Obama

Nothing happens unless first we dream.
Carl Sandburg

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Goethe

The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance – and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.
Oprah Winfrey

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney

Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions.
Edgar Cayce

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
Madonna Ciccone

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
Gloria Steinem

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt

We grow great by dreams … Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they [flourish]; bring them to the sunshine and light, which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.
Woodrow Wilson

“To dream anything that you want to dream. That’s the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.”
Bernard Edmonds

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to flee and fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
Jesse Jackson

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan Poe

There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.
Victor Hugo

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
Anais Nin

Some men see things as they are and say, “Why?” I dream of things that never were and say, “Why not?”
George Bernard Shaw

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.”
Charles Lindbergh

If you talk to your children, you can help them to keep their lives together. If you talk to them skillfully, you can help them to build future dreams.
Jim Rohn

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
Les Brown

As you begin to take action toward the fulfilment of your goals and dreams, you must realize that not every action will be perfect. Not every action will produce the desired result. Not every action will work. Making mistakes, getting it almost right, and experimenting to see what happens are all part of the process of eventually getting it right.
Jack Canfield

I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream — a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land where men will not argue that the color of a man’s skin determines the content of his character; a dream of a nation where all our gifts and resources are held not for ourselves alone, but as instruments of service for the rest of humanity; the dream of a country where every man will respect the dignity and worth of the human personality.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Always dream and shoot higher than you know how to. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner

“Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second. Give your dreams all you’ve got and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.”
William James

“Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.”
Napoleon Hill

Think impossible and dreams get discarded, projects get abandoned, and hope for wellness is torpedoed. But let someone yell the words It’s possible, and resources we hadn’t been aware of come rushing in to assist us in our quest.
Greg Anderson

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes

All men of action are dreamers.
James G. Huneker

“Choosing goals that are important to you is one of the most essential things you can do in order to live your dreams.”
Les Brown

Follow your own particular dreams. We are handed a life by peers, parents and society, you can do that or follow your own dreams. Life is short, be a dreamer but be a practical person.
Hugh Hefner

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter’s evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.”
Woodrow Wilson

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy
Bette Davis

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
William Dement

All people dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their mind, wake in the morning to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous people, for they dream their dreams with open eyes, and make them come true.
T.E. Lawrence (AKA Lawrence of Arabia)

All that you see or seem, is but a dream within a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe

Give your dreams all you’ve got and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
William James

To have passion, to have a dream, to have a purpose in life. And there are three components to that purpose, one is to find out who you really are, to discover God, the second is to serve other human beings, because we are here to do that and the third is to express your unique talents and when you are expressing your unique talents you lose track of time.
Deepak Chopra

“A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.”
Les Brown

Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.
John F. Kennedy

Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.
Homer

“Since it doesn’t cost a dime to dream, you’ll never shortchange yourself when you stretch your imagination.”
Robert Schuller

“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”
Thomas Jefferson

The starting point of great success and achievement has always been the same. It is for you to dream big dreams. There is nothing more important, and nothing that works faster than for you to cast off your own limitations than for you to begin dreaming and fantasizing about the wonderful things that you can become, have, and do.
Brian Tracy

Ralph Lauren has always stood for providing quality products, creating worlds and inviting people to take part in our dream. We were the innovators of lifestyle advertisements that tell a story and the first to create stores that encourage customers to participate in that lifestyle.
Ralph Lauren

“There are those who work all day. Those who dream all day. And those who spend an hour dreaming before setting to work to fulfill those dreams. Go into the third category because there’s virtually no competition.”
Steven J Ross

Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.
Og Mandigo

To dream magnificently is not a gift given to all men, and even for those who possess it, it runs a strong risk of being progressively diminished by the ever-growing dissipation of modern life and by the restlessness engendered by material progress. The ability to dream is a divine and mysterious ability; because it is through dreams that man communicates with the shadowy world which surrounds him. But this power needs solitude to develop freely; the more one concentrates, the more one is likely to dream fully, deeply.
Charles Baudelaire