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“Of course, you can’t saw sawdust! It’s already sawed! And it’s the same with the past. When you start worrying about things that are over and done with, you’re merely trying to saw sawdust.”
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"Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune."
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“When we stop fighting the inevitable, we release energy which enables us to create a richer life”
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“If a person will devote their time to securing facts in an impartial, objective way, their worries will usually evaporate in the light of knowledge”
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“You can be cured in fourteen days if you follow this prescription. Try to think every day how you can please someone.”
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“The biggest misconception of all doctors lies in wanting to heal the body without thinking of the spirit. Body and spirit are one and shouldn’t be treated separately.”
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“70% of all people that go to the doctor could heal themselves by getting rid of their anxiety and worries.”
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“We have to think about our problems, but not worry about them. [...] Worrying means recognising where the problem lies and then doing something to sort it out. Worrying means going round in circles in despair and hopelessness.”
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“There is only one way on God's green earth to benefit from the past - if we objectively analyse the mistakes made, learn from them and then forget them.”
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“The difference between good thinking and bad thinking is this: good thinking deals with causes and effects and leads to logical, constructive planning; bad thinking frequently leads to tension and nervous breakdowns”
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“There is only one way to get love - if any: you have to stop demanding it and start giving love without any hope of getting anything in return."
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Accept the things you can’t change. Don’t worry about small, unimportant things.
Set a limit to your worries:
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“The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your losses. That requires intelligence; and it makes the difference between a man of sense and a fool.”
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“There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.”
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The best possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, with all your enthusiasm, on doing today’s work superbly today. That is the only possible way you can prepare for the future.
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“Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it means collapse.”
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“It is claimed that almost all our fears and worries, our unhappiness, are caused by our imagination and have nothing to do with reality.”
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“I am deeply convinced that our peace of mind and the joy we get out of living depends not on where we are, or what we have, or who we are, but solely on our mental attitude.”
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“Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. Therefore, the ideal and conscious way to cheerfulness - when you have lost it - is t...
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“Our main task is not to see what lies in the vague distance, but only to do what is closest.”
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“He was so busy with positive things that he had no time or inclination to think about the past.”
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“Wise men do not sit idly by and moan about what they have lost, but cheerfully strive to repair the damage.”
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“Did [Jack Dempsey] constantly admonish himself not to ruminate on the past? No, that would only have forced him to think about past problems. Rather, he accepted his defeat, came to terms with it and concentrated on his future.”
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“Do what you think is right in your heart - because you will be criticised anyway. You will be condemned if you do it and if you don't you will also be condemned.”
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“I keep six honest serving-men, they taught me all I knew. Their names are What and Why and When. And How and Where and Who.”
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“We only want to know the facts that justify our actions, that fit our wishful thinking and reinforce our prejudices.”
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Do I sometimes make the present difficult for myself because I regret things that happened in the past and that...
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Unfair critique is often a hidden compliment. Do the best you can and ignore all the hate you get for it.
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Show empathy with the people around you and forget yourself. Do someone a favour, help them and make them smile! This is so effective because during the process of helping someone, you forget yourself and your problems.
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"When we have accepted the worst, we have nothing more to lose. And that automatically means – we have everything to gain!”
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“By talking to yourself every hour of the day, you can direct yourself to think thoughts of courage and happiness, thoughts of power and peace.”
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Facts need to be analysed, otherwise they are useless. It is important to analyse them objectively while being aware of confirmation bias (= the tendency to look for information that confirm your original beliefs).
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Be so busy that you don’t have time to be worried.
It is only possible to think one thought at a time – never two. Make sure that you think positive thoughts so you don’t have space for negative ones.
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Worrying and having anxiety have lots of negative impacts on your body. It is harder for us to concentrate and focus. In the long term it makes us age faster and can be the root cause for lots of diseases and illnesses.
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“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”
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“Once a decision is carefully reached, act! Get busy carrying out your decision – and dismiss all anxiety of the outcome.”
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“Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes a day. Wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.”
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We should be living in the present moment instead of living in the past or the future. Live one day after another. Divide your life into units of days.
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Forgive Your Enemies: Doing your enemies bad hurts you more than it hurts them. Don’t waste time thinking about people you don’t like.
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“When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness”
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Fatigue is often a cause for worries and anxiety. Reduce it as much as you can.
Relax, sit and lay down as often as you can. Relax your entire body even while working and check yourself regularly: Am I making my work harder than it actually is by using musc...
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When you can’t sleep, get up, read a book and learn something. Pray, relax or do some hard work.
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Benefits of praying:
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Use these four steps:
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This method by Willis Carrier helps you to stop worrying:
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“Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true. Everything that is not puts us into a rage.”
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“The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.”
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Boredom is often the main cause for fatigue. Make your work fun and a challenge. Act as if you love what you are doing.
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“When you devote yourself to a cause infinitely greater than yourself, it is a sure way of being able to forgive your enemies and forget them. Insults and hostilities become totally unimportant, because you think only of your great goal and become insensitive to everything else.”
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“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon – instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.”
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“As the years went by, I gradually discovered that ninety-nine per cent of the things I worried about never happened.”
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“If I am faced with a problem and can do something, I do something. If I can't do anything, I just forget about it.”
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“If you spent even half the time you are now wasting on brooding to solve your problems, you would no longer have any. Worrying is just a bad habit.”
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Dale Carnegie shares how to finally stop worrying and start living using the practical tips he collected from various people from all over the world. Please note that I read the book in German, which is why some quotes might differ from the English version.
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You can’t change your past. What is done is done. It’s useless to feel guilty about what you’ve done, instead you have to take everything as a lesson. Learn from your mistakes and try not to do them again.
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Worrying is the mental habit of trying to solve a problem that either can’t be solved or isn’t really a problem.
It gives us the illusion of control. Worrying about it won’t change things. But it will lead to a lot of anxiety.
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