Melody Beattie Quotes

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 is wasteful and useless in times like these.

Worry is a complete waste of energy. It solves nothing.

Worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum.

Worry is the senseless process of cluttering up tomorrows opportunities with leftover problems from today

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

The only thing worried thoughts have the power to change is what the next thing will be for you to worry over!

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.

It's the age-old thing - it's such a cliche - but why worry about things you have no control over?

Worry will never solve tomorrow's problems. It will only take energy away from today.

Stress and worry, they solve nothing. What they do is block creativity. You are not even able to think about the solutions. Every problem has a solution.

Worry is a waste of energy. It cant change the past. It cant control the future. It only makes today miserable

Worry is an unhealthy and destructive mental habit.

Worrying about tomorrow is the best way to screw up today.

Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.

Worry is irrelevant. It alters nothing. When was the last time you solved a problem by worrying about it?

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

Worry is just imagination used in an unproductive way.

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.

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.

Don't worry. Worry is useless. I worried anyway

Worry is a state of mind based upon fear. It works slowly, but persistently. It is insidious and subtle. Step by step it “digs itself in” until it paralyzes ones reasoning faculty, destroys self-confidence and initiative. Worry is a form of sustained fear caused by indecision therefore it is a state of mind which can be controlled.

Worry means the mind is controlling you. Worry is always pointless. A solution never comes out of worry.

If only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worrying about so much.

What this means in practice is that if you are not a born worrier you have nothing to worry about (though of course you wouldn't be worrying anyway), whereas if you are a worrier by nature there is absolutely nothing you can do about it, so you may as well stop worrying, except of course you can't.