Trying to be a perfectionist brings increased stress and hinders performance.

T. Whitmore

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Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.

Swedish Proverb

Whatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not.

When we're anxious, disconnected, vulnerable, alone, and feeling helpless, the booze and food and work and endless hours online feel like comfort, but in reality they're only casting their long shadows over our lives.

How to be unhappy: stay inside all day, move as little as possible, spend more than you earn, take yourself (and life) too seriously, look for reasons why things won't work, always consume, never contribute, resent the lucky and successful, never say hello first, be unreliable.

Sometimes, especially when practising something like mindfulness, you need simply to let things unfold in their own time. If you're anxious, you may just block your understanding. Mindfulness is about letting go, not trying harder.

Shamash Alidina

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

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