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Quotes About Worry

There would be a price... But if you were worried about the price, then why were you in the shop?
~ Terry Pratchett
Overexcited? No! I'm getting very calmly worried that someone might shoot me!
~ Terry Pratchett
He growled and stood up. "There is a knocking without," he said. "Without what?" said the Fool. "Without the door, idiot." The Fool gave him a worried look. "A knocking without a door?" he said suspiciously. "This isn't some kind of Zen, is it?
~ Terry Pratchett
They put it like that?' said Glenda, wide-eyed. 'Oh, you know the sort of thing if you read the papers a lot,' said Ponder. 'I seriously think they think that it is their job to calm people down by first of all explaining why they should be overexcited and very worried.
~ Terry Pratchett
If they look as though they're worried, we'll move in.' 'And do what exactly?' said Polly. 'Threaten to shoot them,' said Maladict firmly. 'And if they don't believe us?' 'Then we'll threaten to shoot them in a much louder voice ,' said Maladict. 'Happy? And I hope to hell they've got some coffee!
~ Terry Pratchett
I find it best to worry about the little things. Things that can be helped by being worried about. Such as the making of clam chowder, (..)coffee. The bigger stuff, well, you have to handle that as it faces you.
~ Terry Pratchett
and Magrat was sick all night just at the thought of it and had the dire rear.
~ Terry Pratchett
God does not play games with His loyal servants," said the Metatron, but in a worried tone of voice. "Whooo-eee," said Crowley. "Where have you been?
~ Terry Pratchett
Rincewind let his breath out in a long sigh. It hurried off to hide somewhere.
~ Terry Pratchett
Some people just couldn't commit to their own health. Instead they wasted their energy worrying about things they could do nothing about.
~ Tess Gerritsen
But a lot of our thinking is caught up in dwelling on the past, trying to control the future, generating misperceptions, and worrying about what others are thinking.
~ Thích Nh?t H?nh
If we have too many worries, fears, and doubts, we have no room for living and loving. We need to practice letting go.
~ Thích Nh?t H?nh
One of the most significant negative habits we should be aware of is that of constantly allowing our mind to run off into the future. Perhaps we got this from our parents. Carried away by our worries, we're unable to live fully and happily in the present. Deep down, we believe we can't really be happy just yet—that we still have a few more boxes to be checked off before we can really enjoy life.
~ Thích Nh?t H?nh
This is the practice of nonviolence with your worries, fear, and anger. If you get angry with your anger, it is multiplied ten times.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Being comfortable with everyone on set really helps to do these intense scenes when you are not worried about everyone looking at you and what they think. You can just kind of let go and let the scene happen.
~ Noah Schnapp
I'm anxious about work, the future, friendships, past relationships... I'm just one of those people that, whatever I'm doing, it's a big worry.
~ Conor McPherson
I can remember playing for Carlisle and just running around like a headless chicken telling the others boys not to worry, that I'd do their running for them. I was just so eager and so keen and desperate to be a footballer that I did that.
~ Glenn Murray
What keeps me awake at night? Just about everything! I worry that I am not there for my family enough. So what keeps me awake at night is general guilt!
~ Julia Sawalha
What keeps me up at night? Anxiety. Anxiety, the inability to go to sleep, it's quite literally that.
~ Paul Auster
I don't know if this is the same for everybody, but for me, sometimes I get depressed, where I wake up and I can feel a change. Something went wrong, and it's almost like you feel tingly in a way where you know something is off, and from that point forward, this anxiety kicks in where you just worry and worry... this cyclical, terrible nature.
~ Scott Snyder
My greatest fear is that I'll fail my kids.
~ Glennon Doyle Melton
Fear can be a killer.
~ Amanda Blake
I send my fears to the sea. They'll no longer trouble me. No more worry, no more dread.
~ Karen Cushman
I worry I broke your kneecaps when I cut you down. I keep hearing that sound. We fly from the world, right, like shrapnel angels, but why is everything so laden around here? Your legs were elegant, and you crossed them elegantly, not like a boy pretending his jewels were too big.
~ Karen Green