Best 11 quotes of David A. Carbonell on MyQuotes

Chronic worries don't get solved because there really isn't anything to solve. The worry just gets repeated until it's replaced by something else.

If you feel that you have too much worry in your life and want to have less, you can probably learn to shrink the role of worry plays in your life.

If you find yourself arguing with yourself, there's one thing you can count on – you're not going to win this argument.

I helped my client become aware of how he was "maximizing" all the negatives in his mind and "minimizing" all the positive.

It may surprise you to hear that what you worry about, the specific content of your worrisome thoughts, isn't usually all that important. What's most important is how you relate to your worrisome thoughts, whatever their content may be.

This most often takes the form of an argumentative, fighting kind of relationship in which you persistently struggle to control and change your worrisome thoughts, only to find that the more you resist and oppose them, the more persistent they become.

Thoughts are ideas. Feelings are emotions, and they're quite different from thoughts. Thoughts can be true or false, or somewhere in between. Feelings are emotional responses that don't involve true or false.

When you struggle against your worries, you generally get more worry rather than less.

You get more worried as a result of your effort to stop worrying. That's the heart of the trick.

You'll have thoughts that tell you something bad could possibly happen sometime in the future. And that's true. Its always true, whether you have thoughts about it or not. Anything is possible, bad things sometimes do happen, and nobody knows the future.

Your recognition that your worries are exaggerated or unrealistic doesn't help you if you continue to avoid what you fear anyway. If you avoid the object of your worries, you will become more afraid of them. What you do counts for much more than what you think.