How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (Dale Carnegie Books)

This priceless prayer was written by Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr. God grant me the serenity To accept the things I cannot change, The courage to change the things I can; And the wisdom to know the difference.

What, then, was the secret of his success? He stated that it was owing to what he called living in “day-tight compartments.” What did he mean by that? A few months before he spoke at Yale, Sir William Osler had crossed the Atlantic on a great ocean liner where the captain, standing on the bridge, could press a button and—presto!—there was a clangin

The late Dean Hawkes of Columbia University told me that he had taken a Mother Goose rhyme as one of his mottoes: For every ailment under the sun, There is a remedy, or there is none; If there be one, try to find it; If there be none, never mind it.

Montaigne, the great French philosopher, adopted these seventeen words as the motto of his life: “A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.” And our opinion of what happens is entirely up to us.

To sum up, here are the five ways in which Professor Phelps banished worry: I. Live with gusto and enthusiasm: “I live every day as if it were the first day I had ever seen and the last I were going to see.” II. Read an interesting book: “When I had a prolonged nervous breakdown … I began reading … the Life of Carlyle … and became so absorbed in re

You and I could probably eliminate nine tenths of our worries right now if we would cease our fretting long enough to discover whether, by the law of averages, there was any real justification for our worries.

said Norman Vincent Peale, “you are not what you think you are; but what you think, you are.”

“Step III. From that time on, I calmly devoted my time and energy to trying to improve upon the worst which I had already accepted mentally.

thinking deals with causes and effects and leads to logical, constructive planning; bad thinking frequently leads to tension and nervous breakdowns.

Disraeli said: “Life is too short to be little.” “Those words,” said André Maurois in This Week magazine, “have helped me through many a painful experience: often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget…. Here we are on this earth, with only a few more decades to live, and we lose many irreplaceable hours broodin