How To Stop Worrying And Start Living Quotes

by | Last updated Feb 8, 2023 | Digital Nomad Blog, Mindset

Are you guilty of living in your own head, making a movie about the things that could go wrong, and forgetting to shout “CUT” before your mind spirals into a thousand dark thoughts?

If so, these stop worrying and start living quotes are made for you. 

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Life is a magical blessing, and spending your days worrying about things that, 99% of the time, NEVER happen, is a waste of the little time we have on this earth.  

In this post, you’ll find 40 stop worrying quotes that will help you to bring yourself back to reality and enjoy the life right in front of you.

These time to start living quotes remind you that worry and anxiety are literally stealing time from you, and on this blog, we don’t like thieves. We want you to live a life filled with joy and pleasure, and part of that requires letting go of all the doubts and worries in your mind.

After reading these quotes, we hope that you’ll feel a big cloud lift from over you as you let go of the heaviness you’ve been carrying from holding onto imaginary situations that likely will never materialize in the real world.

Stop Worrying And Start Living Quotes 

Here are 40 stop worrying and start living quotes that will inspire you to replace your negative thoughts with positive ones.

  1. Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession. – Dale Carnegie
  2. Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create. – Roy T. Bennett
  3. I found it wasn’t so hard to live only one day at a time. I learned to forget the yesterdays and to not think of the tomorrows. Each morning I said to myself, ‘Today is a new life. – Dale Carnegie
  4. Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained. – Arthur Somers Roche
  5. Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. – Corrie Ten Boom
  6. The day you stop worrying will be the first day of your new life; anxiety takes you in circles, trust in yourself and become free. – Unknown
  7. If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present. – Roy T. Bennett
  8. Worry is not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come, your worry is useless; and in either case, it is weak and in vain, and a distrust of God’s providence. Hugh Blair
  9. Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. – Marcus Aurelius
  10. Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose. – Eckhart Tolle
  11. You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do. – Olin Miller
  12. If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it’s not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever. – Dalai Lama
  13. Worry gives a small thing a big shadow. – Swedish Proverb
  14. Sometimes you have to stop worrying, wondering and doubting. Have faith that things will work out, maybe not how you planned but just how it’s meant to be. – Anonymous
  15.  Worrying is carrying tomorrow’s load with today’s strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn’t empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. – Corrie Ten Boom
  16. Worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. – Karen Salmansohn
  17. More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate. – Roy T. Bennett
  18.  According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness. The first symptom is that you stop worrying. Things don’t bother you anymore. You become light-hearted and full of joy. The second symptom is that you encounter more and more meaningful coincidences in your life, more and more synchronicities. And this accelerates to the point where you actually experience the miraculous. – Deepak Chopra
  19. Drag your thoughts away from your troubles…by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. – Mark Twain 
  20. Worry divides the mind. – Max Lucado
  21.   It is difficult to live in and enjoy the moment when you are thinking about the past or worrying about the future. You cannot change your past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about your future. Learn from the past, plan for the future. The more you live in and enjoy the present moment, the happier you will be. – Roy T. Bennett
  22.  It’s not time to worry yet. – Harper Lee
  23.   How would your life be different if…You stopped worrying about things you can’t control and started focusing on the things you can? Let today be the day…You free yourself from fruitless worry, seize the day and take effective action on things you can change. – Steve Maraboli
  24.  Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. – Benjamin Franklin
  25.  I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened. – Mark Twain
  26. Worry is a misuse of the imagination. – Dan Zadra
  27.  We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction. – Harry A. Ironside
  28. Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. – Leo Buscaglia
  29.  Worry is most often a prideful way of thinking that you have more control over life and its circumstances than you actually do. – June Hunt
  30.  You’re trying to eat grass that isn’t there. Why don’t you give it a chance to grow? – Richard Adams
  31.  Worry is the secret weapon perpetrated upon us by the dark forces of the world that lurk in the shape of fear, uncertainty, confusion, and loss. We, on the other hand, have our own secret weapon against these incorporeal fiends. It is laughter. – Vera Nazarian
  32.  Only 8% of our worry will come to pass. 92% of our worry is wasted. – Mark Gorman
  33. Each moment of worry, anxiety or stress represents lack of faith in miracles, for they never cease. – T.F. Hodge
  34.  Don’t worry. Just when you think your life is over, a new story line falls from the sky and lands right in your lap. – Rebekah Crane
  35. Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all. – Thomas Carlyle 
  36. The elimination diet: Remove anger, regret, resentment, guilt, blame, and worry. Then watch your health, and life, improve. – Charles F. Glassman 
  37. Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe. – Keith Caserta
  38. Worrying about outcomes over which I have no control is punishing myself before the universe has decided whether I ought to be punished. – Sherry Thomas 
  39. One sure way to kill a dream, is to suffocate it with worry. – TemitOpe Ibrahim
  40. It ain’t no use putting up your umbrella till it rains! – Alice Caldwell Rice

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Final Thoughts On Stop Worrying And Start Living Quotes

Are you feeling less plagued with distressing thoughts after reading this list of stop worrying start living quotes? 

We hope that these quotes spoke to you, and remember to bookmark the page to revisit anytime your thoughts start taking over. 

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