Rudyard Kipling Quotes

Never meet trouble half-way.

For pity's sake, don't start meeting troubles halfway.

Both worry and stress reek of arrogance.

I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.

Don't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious; it'll make you bugnutty.

Insecurity is a waste of time.

The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

Insecurity is such a waste of time.

Don't worry so much. Most of the things you worry about never end up happening.

If I worry about what everybody is saying, there is going to be a lot on my mind. I don't want that.

Fear is a waste of time.

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

There are, of course, people who didn't create the trouble they're in, but lots of them do.

It's the nature of human consciousness to look for trouble constantly, and we find it. We find it.

Don't borrow trouble. The interest is too high.

Let's save tomorrow's troubles for tomorrow.

fretting at trouble only doubles it.

I don't like that [scaring] feeling and I watch the news every day because of it. It's going to be hard to fix all of these problems that seem absolutely unfixable to me.

Feeling bad is not a requirement; it’s something we agree to. Cut it loose!

Worry is a waste of emotional reserve".

This is about all the bad days in the world. I used to have some little bad days, and I kept them in a little box. And one day, I threw them out into the yard. "Oh, it's just a couple little innocent bad days." Well, we had a big rain. I don't know what it was growing in but I think we used to put eggshells out there and coffee grounds, too. Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me. Choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothin'. They're your days. Choke 'em!

If we could make up our minds to spare our friends all details of ill health, of money losses, of domestic annoyances, of altercations, of committee work, of grievances, provocations, and anxieties, we should sin less against the world's good-humor. It may not be given us to add to the treasury of mirth; but there is considerable merit in not robbing it.