Don’t Worry

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 16, 1915

ANXIETY mars one’s work. No one can do his best when fevered by worry. One may rush and always be in great haste, and may talk about being busy, fuming as if he were doing twelve men’s duties; and yet some quiet person alongside, who is moving leisurely and without anxious haste, is probably accomplishing twice as much and doing it better.

Fluster unfits one for good work.

Nervous prostration is seldom the result of present trouble and work, but of work and trouble anticipated. Mental exhaustion comes to those who look ahead, and climb mountains before they arrive at them. A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. Worry upsets our whole system. Work keeps it in health and order.

The bright, cheerful woman makes a cheerful world around her.

The melancholy, morose, fretful, disjointed, sarcastic, critical, dyspeptic, bilious, gloomy woman creates a world about her which is a reflection of her own mood.—Selected.