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We
can plan for the future, but we must live in the present
and let go of anxiety and worries about what might
be.
-- Robert
Alan Silverstein
The
key to living a 'better world lifestyle' is to set
our sites on where we want to be, but focus on where
we are NOW, and take each step, moment by moment.
The past is past. The future will come when it comes.
We are here in the present. We can learn from the
past. Where we can, we can try to mend our relationships
and do what we can to create a better world. But where
there is nothing we can do, we have to let it go.
We have to let ourselves live, free of the burdens
of guilt, and regret and anger. We can plan for the
future, but we must live in the present and let go
of anxiety and worries about what might be.
-- Robert
Alan Silverstein
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"Perhaps
travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating
that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die,
it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand
each other, we may even become friends.
-- Maya
Angelou
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"What's
the use of worrying?
It never was worth while,
So pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag,
And smile, smile, smile.
-- George Asaf
The
way to happiness --
keep your heart free from hate, your mind free from worry,
live simply, expect little, give much.
-- Carol Borges
A new
idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn;
it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death
by a frown on the right man's brow.
-- Charles Brower
The
secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn
for the past, worry about the future,
or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment
wisely and earnestly.
-- Buddha
“Softly
and kindly remind yourself, ''I cannot own anything.'' It
is a valuable thought to keep in mind as you struggle to
improve your financial picture, worry about investments,
and plan how to acquire more and more. It is a universal
principle which you are part of. You must release everything
when you truly awaken. Are you letting your life go by in
frustration and worry over not having enough? If so, relax
and remember that you only get what you have for a short
period of time. When you awaken you will see the folly of
being attached to anything.”
- Wayne Dyer
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“...the
world is a giant community now. This excuse of distance,
time, doesn’t work...We’re all so connected. We can’t
spend every second of our lives worrying about another
family miles away but we somehow have to factor it
in where we can."
-- Ralph
Fiennes
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Do
not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never
happen. Keep in the sunlight.
-- Benjamin
Franklin
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Don't
worry that children never listen to you; worry that they
are always watching you.
-- Robert Fulghum
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"When
we bear witness, when we become the situation — homelessness,
poverty, illness, violence, death — the right action
arises by itself. We don’t have to worry about what
to do. We don't have to figure out solutions ahead
of time. Peacemaking is the functioning of bearing
witness. Once we listen with our entire body and mind,
loving action arises.
-- Bernie
Glassman
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"When
food becomes scarce, refugees often turn to desperate
measures to feed themselves and their families. We
are particularly worried about the health of the refugee
population, domestic violence and refugees resorting
to illegal employment or even to prostitution, just
to put enough food on the table."
~
Antonio
Guterres, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees,
2005-
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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
Many
of us worry about the situation of the world . . .
We need to remain calm, to see clearly. Meditation
is a means to be aware, and to try to help.
-- Thich
Nhat Hanh
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We know the poison from the radioactive dump will go
down under the ground and leak into the water. We drink
from this water. The animals drink from this water.
We're worried that the animals will become poisoned,
and we'll become poisoned in our turn.
-- Eileen
Kampakuta Brown & The Kungka Tju
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When
we eat vegetarian foods,
we needn't worry about what kind of disease our food died
from; this makes a joyful meal!
-- John Harvey Kellogg, M.D.
A man
ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity.
I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,
it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should
have sat up and worried.
-- Dorothea Kent
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Solutions
and technologies exist to provide clean, affordable
drinking water anywhere in the world. These solutions
will save lives, reduce financial burdens, foster
peace, and relieve millions of people from worrying
about their next drink of water.
-- Jewel
Kilcher
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“Be
careful what you water your dreams with. Water them
with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that
choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism
and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always
be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into
an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout
for ways to nurture your dream.”
- Lao Tzu
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Worrying
is like paying on a debt that may never come due. -- Will
Rogers
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"I've
always had a really developed sense of justice. As
a child, I would rotate my dolls' dresses for fear
that they might come alive at midnight and one of
them would always have the best dress on. Whatever
it was that made me worry about my dolls I suppose
has paid off in my career because, really, an actor
is all about empathy and imagination. And those are
the cornerstones of activism.
-- Susan
Sarandon
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Of
course, some will say the goal [of abolition] is a utopian
dream of human perfection. We needn't worry. There will
be more than enough sins left for everyone to commit
after we have taken nuclear bombs away from ourselves.
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