Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Worry
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Our young people are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination, and the like. These never presented a practical difficulty to any man,--never darkened across any man's road, who did not go out of his way to seek them. These are the soul's mumps, and measles, and whooping- coughs, and those who have not caught them cannot describe their health or prescribe a cure. A simple mind will not know these enemies.
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One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. He only is right who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded by worry, fret and anxiety. Finish every day, and be done with it. You have done what you could.
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As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
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Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.
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To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest. Always do what you are afraid to do.
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Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up
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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
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The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.
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Fear always springs from ignorance.
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