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A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety.

A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety.

Bertrand Russell
Worry, Anxiety, Matter
Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.40, Lulu Press, Inc

Worry is a form of fear, and all forms of fear produce fatigue. A man who has learned not to feel fear will find the fatigue of daily life enormously diminished.

Bertrand Russell
Fear, Men, Worry
Bertrand Russell (2013). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.31, W. W. Norton & Company

A habit of finding pleasure in thought rather than action is a safeguard against unwisdom and excessive love of power, a means of preserving serenity in misfortune and peace of mind among worries. A life confined to what is personal is likely, sooner or later, to become unbearably painful; it is only by windows into a larger and less fretful cosmos that the more tragic parts of life become endurable.

Bertrand Russell
Mean, Worry, Serenity
Bertrand Russell, John Greer Slater, Peter Köllner (1996). “A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42”, p.310, Psychology Press

Worry is a form of fear.

Bertrand Russell
Worry, Form
Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.43, Lulu Press, Inc

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

Bertrand Russell
Dangerous World, Worry, Emotion

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