Rocking Chair

Worry is like a rocking chair: It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. - Erma Bombeck


Relax.

Fear Cured

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy. - Dale Carnegie


If you get bucked off don't just sit in the dirt, get back on.

Question Is: When?

Stuck is a state of mind, and it's curable. - Seth Godin


You don't see cat skeletons in trees.

Excess is Good

In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people's wrath. - Kahlil Gibran


I've never understood this "balance" in life thing myself.

Moral Courage

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. - Mark Twain


It really makes little sense that we are more afraid of what people will think of us than what they will do to us......

Fear of Contradiction

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. - Sir Winston Churchill 

I love being proven wrong - I learned something.

(Other posts on Learning) 

Don't Worry, Be Creative

Worry is a misuse of imagination. - Dan Zadra


Save your imagination for something creative.


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Future Fear

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 Antoninus 


Provided you have learned to reason - if you haven't, be afraid.


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Imaginary Evils

Imaginary evils are incurable. - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach 


And people who see 'em are incorrigible.


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Risk Assessment

A professor called it Compulsive Risk Assessment Psychosis, otherwise known as CRAP. 

Definition:

            Compulsive – Irresistible impulse.

            Risk – The possibility of suffering harm

            Assessment – To make a judgment.

            Psychosis – A mental disorder.

 If you obsess about what might happen you are suffering from CRAP.

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What is Fear?

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. - Marie Curie

Just as nerves tell you if you are injured or well, emotions like fear and love tell you about your well-being - though the evaluation is instantaneous and therefore subject to error. 

Sanctioned Force

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb. - Spiro T. Agnew

We are now confronted with this choice. I choose the anarchist's (or terrorist's) bomb. The policeman's truncheon will not eliminate bombing but will effect the freedom of everyone. Never trust anyone with sanctioned force.

Trust Deceived

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough. - Dr. Frank Crane



My tendency is to trust until deceived. I may be poorer for that approach but at least I'm not tormented.

Worring About Rain

It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains. - Alice Hegan Rice



Too many folks worry about things which are marginally predictable.

Emotional Fear

Our instinctive emotions are those we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger proportion of fear than they should. - Bertrand Russell

There is a definite difference between emotional fear and rational fear. Worry is the result of the former while safety is the usual outcome of the latter.

All Things Questioned

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear. - Thomas Jefferson



All things must be questioned. Remember those around you will be questioning you and your actions as well. You may have to explain why you do things often; how well you explain will determine if they follow or not.