Best past & worry Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Obama does not need to worry as much as past Democratic presidents about being labeled soft on national security - not after giving the order that led to the assassination of Osama bin Laden. No, his biggest concern is being labeled tone deaf on joblessness and debt.”

Needs Giving Doe Past Order President Worry Security Concern Democratic Debt Tone National Security Joblessness Deaf Bin Laden Assassination Osama Bin Laden

Author:Ron Fournier

“Given Mr. Obama's lack of experience as an executive, and his past performance in crises such as the oil spill, it is reasonable for those of us who support the effort in Afghanistan to worry that he will not be up to the job.”

Jobs Past Given Effort Worry Support Performances Crisis Oil Reasonable Executives Afghanistan Spills Oil Spill

Author:Jim Talent

“As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually.”

Thinking World Children Past Worry Concepts Adults Our Time Engaging Submerged Worrying About The Past

Author:Chris Ware

“When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they're full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don't consider the past. And they don't worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.”

Way Moments Action Past Worry Alive Hunger Mortals Uncertainty Sage

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“Don't worry about the past and don't try to solve the future.”

Trying Past Worry Future Solve

Book:A Christmas Blizzard: A Novel

Source: A Christmas Blizzard: A Novel

“A player's effectiveness is directly related to his ability to be right there, doing that thing, in the moment. He can't be worrying about the past or the future or the crowd or some other extraneous event. He must be able to respond in the here and now.”

Moments Able Past Ability Worry Player Events Crowds Related Here And Now Effectiveness Worrying About The Past

Author:John Brodie

“How often are you worrying about the present moment? The present moment is usually all right. If you're worrying, you're either agonizing over the past which you should have forgotten long ago, or else you're apprehensive over the future which hasn't even come yet. We tend to skip over the present moment which is the only moment God gives any of us to live.”

Ifs Giving Should Long Moments Past Worry Should Have Forgotten Present Moment Long Ago Over The Past Skip Agonizing

Author:Peace Pilgrim

“Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.”

Giving Bigs Past Left Forget Mistake Worry Greater Achievement Optimism Presses Noble Criticize Improving Improving Yourself Time Left Optimism In Life

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“Each minute we spend worrying about the future and regretting the past is a minute we miss in our appointment with life - a missed opportunity to engage life and to see that each moment gives us the chance to change for the better, to experience peace and joy.”

Giving Moments Motivational Past Joy Opportunity Chance Worry Minutes Missing Regret Appointments Change For The Better Peace And Joy Missed Opportunity

Book:Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life

Source: Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life

“In the past, I would try to control so much, but that's just too stressful, and gives me too much anxiety and worry.”

Giving Trying Past Worry Too Much Anxiety Give Me Stressful Anxiety And Worry

Author:Cam Gigandet

“Worry was my mother's mechanic, her mechanism for engaging with the machinery of living. Worry was an anchor for her, a hook, something to clutch on to in the world. Worry was a box to live inside of, worry a mechanism for evading the present, for re-creating the past, for dealing with the future.”

World Past Mother Worry Creating Boxes Mechanism Engaging Hook Mechanic Machinery Anchors Clutch

Author:Charles Yu

“The season of Advent means there is something on the horizon the likes of which we have never seen before ... What is possible is to not see it, to miss it, to turn just as it brushes past you. And you begin to grasp what it was you missed, like Moses in the cleft of the rock, watching God’s [back] fade in the distance. So stay. Sit. Linger. Tarry. Ponder. Wait. Behold. Wonder. There will be time enough for running. For rushing. For worrying. For pushing. For now, stay. Wait. Something is on the horizon.”

Mean Enough Running Past Turns Waiting Wonder Worry Rocks Missing Seasons Distance Likes Pushing Horizon Fades Brushes Moses Pondering Rushing Advent

Author:Jan L. Richardson

“There are very few things in the mind which eat up as much energy as worry. It is one of the most difficult things not to worry about anything. Worry is experienced when things go wrong, but in relation to past happenings it is idle merely to wish that they might have been otherwise. The frozen past is what it is, and no amount of worrying is going to make it other than what it has been. But the limited ego-mind identifies itself with its past, gets entangled with it and keeps alive the pangs of frustrated desires.”

Mind Has Beens Might Past Desire Energy Wish Difficult Worry Alive Amount Ego Happenings Relation Frustrated Idle Frozen Might Have Been Difficult Things When Things Go Wrong

Author:Meher Baba

“Most power is lost in one's own mind by thinking negative thoughts, by worrying about the future, by focusing on the past, as opposed to thinking positive, strong, and happy thoughts.”

Thinking Mind Past Lost Strong Worry Losing Negative Mysticism Negative Thoughts Think Positive Losing Power Happy Thoughts Thinking Negative

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Ive worked very hard at understanding myself, learning to be assertive. Im past the point where I worry about people liking me.”

People Hard Past Understanding Worry Assertive Understanding Myself

Author:Pam Dawber

“Change no one. Change nothing. React to no one, react to nothing. Do not live in the past and do not, worry about the future. Stay in the eternal now, where all is well. After all you are me and I am you. There's no difference. Do not react to the world. Do not even react to your own body. Do not even react to your own thoughts. Learn to become the witness. Learn to be quiet.”

World Wells Body Past Change Differences Worry Learning Future Quiet Eternal Witness Stillness

Author:Robert Adams

“Occasionally I was so much better that I could go out; but the streets used to put me in such a rage that I would lock myself up for days rather than go out, even if I were well enough to do so! I could not bear to see all those preoccupied, anxious-looking creatures continuously surging along the streets past me! Why are they always anxious? What is the meaning of their eternal care and worry? It is their wickedness, their perpetual detestable malice-that's what it is-they are all full of malice, malice!”

Ifs Wells Enough Care Past Used Worry Streets Bears Creatures Eternal Rage Anxious Perpetual Locks Wickedness Malice What Is The Meaning

Book:The Idiot: Easyread Large Edition

Source: The Idiot: Easyread Large Edition

“Don't worry about your future lives, past lives. Button up your shirt! Stand up straight! Go out and do something. Go out and have some fun. Be alive, change, dissolve, explode!”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.”

People Kind Moments Running Able Past Energy Worry Regret Caught Tendencies Pushing Present Moment

Author:Nhat Hanh

“Since men do not really respect anything unless it was established long ago and has developed slowly over time, those who want tokeep on living after their death must take worry not only about their future generations but even more about their past: that is why tyrants of all kinds (including tyrannical artists and politicians) like to do violence to history, so that it will appear as a preparation and stepladder to themselves.”

Men Want Kind Long Past Artist Worry Violence Generations Politician Including All Kinds Preparation Tyrants Long Ago Future Generation

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

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