Once a dolphin told me (talking into my mind) that #humans think they are very smart and they #work and #worry all the time. But #dolphins are smarter because they chose to #play and #havefun all the time.

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**stoicmike** @stoicmike · 5d

stoicmike @stoicmike

#worry #worrying #disease

**WIST Quotations** @wist@my-place.social · Apr 10

Apr 10

WIST Quotations @wist@my-place.social

A quotation from Franklin

Kings and Bears often worry their Keepers.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1739 ed.)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/76…

#quote #quotes #quotation

**WIST Quotations** @wist@my-place.social · Apr 8

Apr 8

WIST Quotations @wist@my-place.social

A quotation from Joubert

It is always our inabilities that irritate us.

[Ce sont toujours nos impuissances qui nous irritent.]

Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French moralist, philosopher, essayist, poet
Pensées [Thoughts], ch. 5 “Des Passions et des Affections de l’Âme [On the Soul], ¶ 29 (1850 ed.) [tr. Calvert (1866)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/joubert-joseph/76115…

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**Bec** @teadrinker@aus.social · Apr 4

Apr 4

Bec @teadrinker@aus.social

I was boiling the kettle before work one day this week and it occurred to me that I feel a lot like I'm waiting... not even sure what I'm waiting for. There's so much uncertainty around, right? Can't help feeling a bit of foreboding. Globally and also personally (waiting for my PhD to be marked, I guess, mostly).

If ever I needed to remember to be here now, it's this moment. Reminding myself that nobody knows the future and if I'm always waiting for something to happen I'm not paying attention to what's happening!

It's kind of hard to resist all the what-ifs, isn't it, though?! Sigh. Breathe. Tea.

#BeHereNow #meditation #worry

**WIST Quotations** @wist@my-place.social · Mar 21

Mar 21

WIST Quotations @wist@my-place.social

A quotation from Horace

But to go mad with watching, nights and days,
To stand in dread of thieves, fires, runaways
Who filch and fly, — in these if wealth consist,
Let me rank lowest on the paupers’ list.

[An vigilare metu exanimem, noctesque diesque
formidare malos fures, incendia, servos,
ne te conpilent fugientes, hoc iuvat? Horum
semper ego optarim pauperrimus esse bonorum.]

Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 1, # 1, “Qui fit, Mæcenas,” l. 76ff (1.1.76-79) (35 BC) [tr. Conington (1874)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/horace/75767/

WIST Quotations · Mar 21Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 1, # 1, "Qui fit, Mæcenas," l. 76ff (1.1.76-79) (35 BC) [tr. Conington (1874)] - Horace | WIST QuotationsBut to go mad with watching, nights and days, To stand in dread of thieves, fires, runaways Who filch and fly, -- in these if wealth consist, Let me rank lowest on the paupers' list. [An vigilare metu exanimem, noctesque diesque formidare malos fures, incendia, servos, ne te conpilent fugientes,…

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**Steve Dustcircle** @dustcircle@masto.ai · Mar 15

Mar 15

Steve Dustcircle @dustcircle@masto.ai

#Breathing Strategies to Reduce #Stress and #Worry

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/parent-tips-20/202503/breathing-strategies-to-reduce-stress-and-worry

Psychology TodayBreathing Strategies to Reduce Stress and WorryThe most simple way to reduce your response to stress and worry is to learn to breath differently. It is free, it is easy, and it works.

**Nando161** @nando161@partyon.xyz · Mar 14

Mar 14

Nando161 @nando161@partyon.xyz

#something he'll never have to #worry about

**BecLFC** @Beclfc@mastodonapp.uk · Mar 11

Mar 11

BecLFC @Beclfc@mastodonapp.uk

I worry.

That's it.

I just worry.

#worry

**Em-squared** @emsquared@mastodon.social · Mar 3

Mar 3

Em-squared @emsquared@mastodon.social

I've got that feeling. You know that "ooh I've left the gas on" type nagging feeling.
I haven't. Left the gas on that is.
But you know. Just the sense that I have.
As a former boss used to say (& he hadn't a care in the world), "Innit a worry?", whilst beaming from ear to ear.
#life #worry

**Kit Author** @KitAuthor@wandering.shop · Mar 3

Mar 3

Kit Author @KitAuthor@wandering.shop

Dealing with the Demons of the Publishing Unknown
One of the hardest parts of being an author is putting together a story that you are certain is amazing, offering it to the world and...nothing. Books that you expect to be flops may be successes, which isn't a bad thing at all. But the reverse, those books
https://authoryogi.eponaauthorsolutions.com/dealing-with-the-demons-of-the-publishing-unknown/
#CreativeNervousSystem #WritingBusiness #CreativeNervousSystem #fear #MentalHealth #worry