Nick Earls Quotes

I've been anxious but not depressed. I'm an incorrigible optimist.

Worry is useless mulling over of things we cannot change. Worry is not concern, which would motivate you to do everything possible in a situation.

Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your reserves.

Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your nerves.

It's fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats as I am most of the time — for jittery people.

Worry and stress is one of the most unhealthiest things. They say that cancer and sickness comes from that, so you know I do my best. There are times that I do feel very stressed, but I do my best to keep it away and get plenty of rest.

Unfortunately, on one or both of my shoulders sits lots of anxiety and that is a controlling factor in my life.

Worry is an unhealthy and destructive mental habit.

A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction.

I was certainly going the right way for a stroke when I left Paris. I paid for it nicely afterwards! When I stopped drinking, when I stopped smoking so much, when I began to think again instead of trying not to think - Good Lord, the depression and the prostration of it! Work in these magnificent natural surroundings (Arles) has restored my morale, but even now some efforts are too much for me: my strength fails me.

There are lots of threats to you in the world. There's the threat of a heart attack for genetic reasons. You can't sit there and worry about everything. Get a life.

Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.

I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.

Worrying is using your imagination to create something you don't want.

It is the very wantonness of folly for a man to search out the frets and burdens of his calling and give his mind every day to a consideration of them. They belong to human life. They are inevitable. Brooding only gives them strength.

No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.

I've learned one important lesson in my life, and I'm going to share it with you. Don't worry about bad things that haven't happened yet. It will save you a lot of anxiety.

Sometimes it all gets a little too much, but you gotta realize that soon the fog will clear up.

Wake up, life does get tough. No need to stress, holds you back too much.

Although anxiety is part of life, never let it control you.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

The more comfort becomes your priority, the more contracted you become with fear.

I try to take it one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.

To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.

If you have an anxiety lay it down before The Lord