Bruce Barton Quotes

It's really easy to catastrophise everything. I'd like to think as I've gotten older, I do a bit better with that.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

Ever since I was a little girl, I've worried too much. It always bothers me because sometimes you end up worrying more about the worry and you are not resolving things that are right there in front of you. I have been like that all my life, and it's hard to change.

Friends, there are many areas in which I need encouragement, but worrying is not one of them. I worry the way Renee Fleming sings high Cs: Effortlessly. Loudly. At length.

It took me a long time, but I don't feel as anxious about stupid things anymore - or perhaps they've just been replaced by more complicated stupid things.

Maybe I think too much.

You're never going to get used to walking into a room and have people screaming at you. There's a lot of things that come with the life you could get lost in. But you have to let it be what it is. I've learnt not to take everything too seriously.

Everybody feels good in their skin for about a minute a day, and the rest of the day, you're just trying to navigate your way through the sea of terror.

At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.

I'm not looking for pity, I'm really not, but I'm constantly uneasy and every day it is pretty much like getting up and going to war. Once I shift into the mindset of 'Yeah, you're alive. It's tough. Let's do what we can today,' it's easier.

Everybody has problems. Everyone has issues.

She seems to be having a pretty good time despite her worrying. That's Lily.

Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions.

I think sometimes I don't realise how much the pressure gets to me.

The truth is, I'm not a coper. I hate stress. I might appear calm externally but internally it's all going on.

If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones.

I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

I have worries, but in difficult times, that is when I am quiet.

I am a very neurotic person all the time.

I'm a fairly neurotic person.

Women tend to overthink things.

I learned, by the time I was twenty, I'm not gonna die from a panic attack; you feel like you're going to.

People go through so much in life - financially, physically, mentally, and emotionally. So I don't look at the ups and downs as anything but a negligible area.

If I ever feel like, 'Oh, my life!' or get upset by silly things like a photographer, or if someone has written something nasty that's upset me, I just think, 'Worse things happen at sea.'