Rick Warren Quotes

Never waste energy on worries or negative thoughts, all problems are brought into existence -drop them.

The solution probably doesn't look like the problem. If we have this propensity to worry, to be anxious, to be depressed, to be angry - focusing on the worry, anxiety, depression, and anger? Probably not gonna be the solution.

There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones to go off somewhere and jump into the river.

Every day practice emptying your mind of all unhealthy attitudes.

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

Life is too short for mean anxieties.

WORRYING does not take away tomorrow's TROUBLES, it takes away today's PEACE.

Depression and anxiety can't fit in your head if you're cultivating feelings of joy and inspiration.

At the end of the day, I can end up just totally wacky, because I've made mountains out of molehills. With meditation, I can keep them as molehills.

'What if?' statements throw fuel on the fire of stress and worry. Things can go in a million different directions, and the more time you spend worrying about the possibilities, the less time you'll spend focusing on taking action that will calm you down and keep your stress under control.

I believe that your own thoughts can bring on positive or negative effects. So the people who feel sick all the time are the ones who are going to get sick, and the people who are constantly worried about what's going on around them... those are the ones in trouble.

I need to stay in the present and use that new-age mantra: 'I'm okay right now.' But I worry about all the things I'm failing at every moment.

I try not to worry about the future - so I take each day just one anxiety attack at a time.

I'm just not in a place in my life where I worry about something unnecessarily.

When I'm not working on something, I seem to go through periods of depression. It helps to keep busy.

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.

I go as hard as I can when I'm anxiety-free.

Stress is a downward spiral, and you can only overcome it with a positive perspective.

We can go through our five senses in about a minute's time to become grounded in the present; and we can do this anytime we find ourselves in worry or speculation. Becoming grounded in our present makes us available to happiness.

I don't stay in the constant worried and over-thinking zone.

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.

Either worrying drives out prayer, or prayer drives out worrying.

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

Make the decision and say, "I'm not letting that worry in. I'm done being upset when my plans don't work out. I'm not letting that stress in." Negative thoughts will still come to your mind, but you don't have to let them into your spirit.

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