HOW TO STOP WORRYING & START LIVING

When we stop fighting the inevitable," said Elsie Mac-Cormick in a Reader's Digest article, "we release energy which enables us to create a richer life

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

Carry on, no matter what happens. Hide your private sorrows under a smile and carry on.'

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequence of any misfortune

Let's examine the record." Let's ask ourselves: "What are the chances, according to the law of averages, that this event I am worrying about will ever occur

To break the worry habit, here is Rule 1:

Keep busy. The worried person must lose himself in action, lest be wither in despair.

The remedy for worry is to get completely occupied doing something constructive."

when we're free to enjoy our own leisure, and ought to be happiest-that's when the blue devils of worry attack us.

A problem well stated is a problem half solved

Andre Maurois put it: "Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true. Everything that is not puts us into a rage."