Worry is a dividend paid to disaster before it is due
Interpretation
Worrying about potential problems today only serves to create unnecessary suffering.
This quote suggests that excessive worry and anxiety about possible future disasters do not prevent those disasters from occurring; instead, they drain joy and peace from the present moment. By concerning ourselves with hypothetical outcomes, we pay a 'dividend' of stress and fear, while often we find that the disasters we imagine never come to fruition.
In practice
During a speech about mental health, this quote can highlight the futility of anxiety.
Above all, he liked it that everything was one's own fault. There was only oneself to praise or blame. Luck was a servant and not a master. Luck had to be accepted with a shrug or taken advantage of up to the hilt. But it had to be understood and recognized for what it was and not confused with a faulty appreciation of the odds, for, at gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck. And luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared
Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.
And don't get hurt,' [Dexter] added. 'There's no one to help you up there. And don't go stirring up a lot of trouble for us. This case isn't ripe yet. Until it is, our policy with Mr Big is 'live and let live'.' Bond looked quizzically at Captain Dexter In my job,' he said, 'when I come up against a man like this one, I have another motto. It's 'live and let die'.
You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
If you interrupt the writing of fast narrative with too much introspection and self-criticism, you will be lucky if you write 500 words a day and you will be disgusted with them into the bargain. By following my formula, you write 2,000 words a day and you arenβt disgusted with them until the book is finished, which will be in about six weeks.
Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?
O my God, teach me to be generous_x000D_ to serve you as you deserve to be served_x000D_ to give without counting the cost_x000D_ to fight without fear of being wounded_x000D_ to work without seeking rest_x000D_ and to spend myself without expecting any reward_x000D_ but the knowledge that I am doing your holy will._x000D_ Amen
Excellent warriors are not violent.
Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.
Be aware that what you think, to a large extent, creates the emotions that you feel. See the link between your thinking and your emotions. Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.
The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.
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