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Quotes About Worry

He was just hungry, Papa. He's going to die. He's going to die anyway. He's so scared, Papa. The man squatted and looked at him. I'm scared, he said. Do you understand? I'm scared. The boy didn't answer. He just sat there with his head down, sobbing. You're not the one who has to worry about everything. The boy said something but he couldn't understand him. What? He said. He looked up, his wet and grimy face. Yes I am, he said. I am the one.
~ Cormac McCarthy
I dont know how it would of turned out if I hadnt worried.
~ Cormac McCarthy
He might say that milk is the beverage of choice among all right-thinking nightfolk. Or he would say that if anything were true wouldnt everybody know it by now? Or that you shouldnt worry about what people think of you because they dont do it that often. Or that we are hardly creatures of the light in case you hadnt noticed. Or that the darkest hour is just before the storm. Or when you close your eyes do I go away? Do you?
~ Cormac McCarthy
Bad news? Oh, festering fungus! What sort of bad news?
~ Cornelia Funke
Yes,' she whispered. 'He was more worried about the book than me.
~ Cornelia Funke
I know why you're here ... This world doesn't frighten you half as much as the other one. You have nothing and nobody to lose here. Except Fox, and she clearly worries more about you than you do about her. You've left all that could frighten you in the other world. But then Will came here and brought it all with him.
~ Cornelia Funke
worrying him, and he seemed to look straight through her as if his thoughts were somewhere else entirely. The foreboding in Meggie's heart grew, spreading black wings. 'Send him away, Mo!' she said
~ Cornelia Funke
Manchmal denke ich, Angst ist die Ursache allen Unglücks
~ Cornelia Funke
It's the place that worries you," said Hazel. "I don't like it myself, but it won't go on forever." Richard Adams, Watership Down
~ Cornelia Funke
When we live by faith, we believe that God has everything under control. But if we start to worry, how we live says the opposite.
~ Craig Groeschel
and I thought how liking a boy was just the same as believing you wanted to know a secret - everything was better when you were denied and could feel tormented by curiousity or loneliness. But the moment of something happening was treacherous. It was just so tiring to have to worry about whether your face was peeling, or to have to laugh at stories that weren't funny.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
~ Dale Carnegie
When I asked him -Mr.Henry Ford- if he ever worried, he replied: No. I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe that every-thing will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about?
~ Dale Carnegie
Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?
~ Dale Carnegie
Today is the tommorrow you worried about yesterday.
~ Dale Carnegie
Those who do not know how to fight worry die young.
~ Dale Carnegie
one of the worst features about worrying is that it destroys our ability to concentrate.
~ Dale Carnegie
It has been said that nearly all of our worries and unhappiness come from our imagination and not from reality.
~ Dale Carnegie
confusion is the main cause of worry
~ Dale Carnegie
If a man will devote his time to securing facts in an impartial, objective way, his worries will usually evaporate in the light of knowledge.
~ Dale Carnegie
Charles Evans Hughes, former Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, said: "Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry." Yes, from dissipation of their energies—and worry because they never seem to get their work done.
~ Dale Carnegie
George Bernard Shaw was right. He summed it all up when he said: "The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
~ Dale Carnegie
We cannot be pepped up and enthusiastic about doing something exciting and feel dragged down by worry at the very same time. One kind of emotion drives out the other.
~ Dale Carnegie
You will recall that the White Queen said: "The rule is jam tomorrow and jam yesterday but never jam today." Most of us are like that—stewing about yesterday's jam and worrying about tomorrow's jam—instead of spreading today's jam thick on our bread right now.
~ Dale Carnegie