Vernon Howard Quotes

My safety and my family's safety are not guaranteed even now.

If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.

Panic causes tunnel vision. Calm acceptance of danger allows us to more easily assess the situation and see the options.

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

Normally in dangerous situations I have a getaway car.

Worrying is the interest paid on a debt you may not owe.

Worrying is imagining that which you don't want.

Anxiety beclouds the future.

Worry is a sustained form of fear caused by indecision

We're hoping for the best, but we need to prepare for the worst.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

I think I'm going to have a lot of trouble.

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

Don't wait until you're in a crisis to come up with a crisis plan.

In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness isn't unhappiness or even depression, it's anxiety. It is something that can constantly block our happiness, or our chance to reach that sort of meditative state in our work or our home lives.

I don't know what anxiety is like anymore.

If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

Whenever things are good, I always worry about what could go wrong.

My 20s was a sea of worry. I worried about benefit forms, about being thrown out of my flat. I never went on holiday because I thought: 'What if an audition comes up?' I was a nervous wreck.

To some degree we all find life difficult, perplexing, and oppressive. Even when it goes well, as it may for a time, we worry that it probably won't keep on that way.

Now is the age of anxiety.

I get nervous about everything. I think there's something wrong if you don't get nervous.

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?

No, but you've got to be here in case something does happen.

I'm anxious about work, the future, friendships, past relationships... I'm just one of those people that, whatever I'm doing, it's a big worry.