The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

- M. Scott Peck

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

- Benjamin Franklin

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

- Leo Buscaglia

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

- Aristotle

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, not to anticipate the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

- Buddha

What worries you, masters you.

- John Locke

It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more on a man than he can bear. But worry is rust upon the blade. It is not movement that destroys the machinery, but friction.

- Henry Ward Beecher

Now
That
All your worry
Has proved such an
Unlucrative
Business,
Why
Not
Find a better
Job.

- Hafiz of Persia

This is a very important practice. Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself. When you are carried away with your worries, fears, cravings, anger, and desire, you run away from yourself and you lose yourself. The practice is always to go back to oneself.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

The experience of separateness arouses anxiety; it is, indeed, the source of all anxiety.

- Erich Fromm

There is no use worrying about things over which you have no control, and if you have control, you can do something about them instead of worrying.

- Stanley C. Allyn

Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.

- Swedish proverb

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded.
Someone sober will worry about events going badly.
Let the lover be.

- Rumi

Symptoms of Inner Peace


  • A tendency to think and act spontaneously rather than on fears based on past experience
  • An unmistakable ability to enjoy each moment
  • A loss of interest in judging other people
  • A loss of interest in judging self
  • more....

- Saskia Davis