Quotes About Worrying
Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action - faithful action, for the world, and in God.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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I asked what you think I should get Katie for Christmas." He'd lost almost as much sleep worrying about that as he'd lost to picturing her naked. "A vibrator, since you're too chickenshit to get the job done yourself." Josh's jaw dropped, and then he closed his mouth with a snap. "I can't believe you just said that.
~ Shannon Stacey
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Yes, we all know that there's a good chance the missiles won't work properly when the government people finally come to get them, but over the years we've stopped worrying about that. Deep down, most of us feel it's probably better this way. After all, if there are families in faraway countries with their own backyard missiles, armed and pointed back at us, we would hope that they too have found a much better use for them.
~ Shaun Tan
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You can either waste time worrying about a death that might not come or concentrate on what's left to you.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
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Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.
~ Washington Irving
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Finally I saw that worrying had come to nothing. And gave it up. And took my old body and went out into the morning, and sang.
~ Mary Oliver
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He starts to panic at the prospect, and then gets angry at how unfair it is to have to be scared of anything after you've already died. Isn't that supposed to be one of the perks? N more fear and worrying, no more lugging around all the shit that got tangled up in your mortal coil over the years? That's kind of what he's been counting on.
~ Jonathan Tropper
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Let's stop worrying about StarClan and start sharing with them," Jayfeather snapped. "I'm cold.
~ Erin Hunter
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Whatever you are thinking about is like planning a future event. When you are appreciating, you are planning. When you are worrying, you are planning. (Worrying is using your imagination to create something you do not want.)
~ Esther Hicks
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There aren't enough people who care about the future. They are too busy worrying about today and what they can grab now
~ Berry Gordy
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Lack of Control Loophole: Weirdly, we often have an illusion of control over things we can't control—"If I spend a lot of time worrying, the plane is less likely to crash," "If I play my lucky numbers, I'll win the lottery eventually"—but deny control over things we can control ("If my cell phone buzzes, I have to check it"). We argue that circumstances force us to break a habit, but often, we have more control than we admit.
~ Gretchen Rubin
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I believe detachment can become a habitual response, in the same manner that obsessing, worrying, and controlling became habitual responses—by
~ Melody Beattie
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You know your trouble? You think too much. I've never known a happy man who thought too much. Thinking just complicates affairs. Life's like jumping a bad fence on a good horse, the more responsibility you leave to the horse the safer you'll be, and the more you leave to life the happier you are. Worrying
~ Bernard Cornwell
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When a difficult or worrying decision has to be reached, as soon as all the data are available give the matter your best thought and make your decision; having made the decision, do not revise it unless some new fact comes to your knowledge. Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile. A
~ Bertrand Russell
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You must stop worrying about why things happen and wonder what they mean when they do.
~ Joy Williams
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That's why I'm still worrying, at some level. I'm trying to think positively about a negative situation, when I should be trying to believe that there's nothing negative about the situation.
~ Sophie Hannah
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I had blundered again, obscurely, and rather than go on worrying over my behavior, I decided to just give in and dislike Alice.
~ Michael Cunningham
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The scientists haven't tested the hypothesis yet, but I'm willing to bet that when they do they'll find an inverse correlation between the amount of time people spend worrying about nutrition and their overall health and happiness.
~ Michael Pollan
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I hate to feel squeamish almost as much as I hate to sit and think, both being sure-fire ways of getting into trouble. The only safe thing I know is to follow opportunity and leave the man behind to do the worrying. More people die lingering, ghastly deaths in arm-chairs and in bed than anywhere.
~ Talbot Mundy
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Well, just think of a forest floor after a wildfire's put out. The flames are gone, the ones you can see, but the ground's still hot because it's smoldering underneath, buried. A poke could set it off to roaring again. Cher, worrying about that poke will follow me to my grave!
~ Tananarive Due
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Song " I am stuck in traffic in a taxicab which is typical and not just of modern life mud clambers up the trellis of my nerves must lovers of Eros end up with Venus muss es sein? es muss nicht sein, I tell you how I hate disease, it's like worrying that comes true and it simply must not be able to happen in a world where you are possible my love nothing can go wrong for us, tell me
~ Frank O'Hara
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My experience of what can happen and what actually happens is a world apart, so stop worrying!
~ Stephen Richards
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William pouts irritably. Socialism is not the same thing as letting one's servants muddle towards anarchy. But never mind, never mind: on a day like today, it's not worth worrying over. Soon the servant question, at least in William Rackham's household, will be resolved beyond any ambiguity.
~ Michel Faber
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Live a good life. More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.
~ Roy Bennett
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