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Dr. Leo Buscaglia - "Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow — it only saps today of its joy." · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Now, let's dive into today's quote.
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  And you've probably heard this one or seen it floating around
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  the Internet. Worrying does not take away
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  tomorrow's troubles. It takes away today's piece.
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  It's most often attributed to Randy Armstrong, a musician and
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  poet. But that sentiment traces back
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  to someone who said it even better, Doctor Leo Pescaglia,
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  known as Doctor Love. He was a professor at the
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  University of Southern California and one of the most
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  watched speakers in PBS history. And he put it this way.
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  Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow.
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  It only saps today of its joy. Both versions say essentially
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  the same thing. But notice what the Scaglia gets
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  exactly right. Worry makes you a deal and then
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  breaks it. The deal sounds like this.
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  If I worry enough about tomorrow, maybe I can prevent
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  the bad thing from happening. So you lie awake at 2:00 AM
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  running through scenarios, catastrophizing.
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  You rehearse the worst case scenario in your mind.
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  You brace for impact. And what do you get in return?
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  You don't get a better tomorrow. The sorrow, if it comes, comes
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  anyway. Worry can be crippling.
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  It causes us to lose sleep, lose our appetite, and paralyze our
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  thoughts and actions, all while the future remains completely
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  unchanged. So worry doesn't protect you
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  from tomorrow, it just steals from today.
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  But Scaglia spent his career arguing that social bonds and
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  present moment living are essential to transcending
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  everyday stress. He wasn't saying life has no
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  sorrows. He was saying that trading your
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  joy today for sorrow that may or may not come tomorrow is always
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  a losing bargain. The troubles of tomorrow belong
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  to tomorrow. Today's piece belongs to you
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  right now, if you choose to keep it.
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  I've given away entire weekends to worry, anxious about a
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  meeting on Monday or a public speaking thing that I had to do
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  coming up, or a decision I hadn't made yet, or a
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  conversation I was dreading. And in almost every case, when
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  the thing finally arrived, it was either fine or it was hard.
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  But I handled it. The worry didn't help.
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  It just meant I suffered twice, once in anticipation and once in
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  reality. But Scaglio was right, the
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  sorrow comes when it comes. The joy of today is only lost if
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  I handed over early. So here's the question, what are
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  you worrying about right now that belongs to tomorrow?
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  Not today, because today has enough of its own.
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  Don't spend its peace on a tomorrow that hasn't arrived yet
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  and may never arrive the way you're imagining it.
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  Keep today's joy. It's yours and you deserve it.
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  That's it for today. I'm Andrew McGivern, signing off
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  for now, but I'll be back tomorrow.
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  Same pod time, same pod station with another daily quote.