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Quotes About Worry

"Don't worry about being worried. You're heading out on an adventure and you can always change your mind along the way and try something else."
~ Tracy Kidder
The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
~ Ben Folds
It's the age-old thing - it's such a cliche - but why worry about things you have no control over?
~ Mike Quade
The moment man begins to take thought of the morrow he passes out of the Garden of Eden into the vale of anxiety; the pale cast of worry settles down upon him, greed is sharpened, property begins, and the good cheer of the "thoughtless" native disappears.
~ Will Durant
In the movies, when you wake up after some sort of accident, you open your eyes and see the face of a loved one hovering above you, calling out your name, an incantation of love and worry and devotion. You look for the light. They bring you back from the brink.
~ Will Leitch
A vague worry has started alongside my self-satisfaction: I have established, with amazing rapidity, a reputation for maniacal, self-destructive courage.
~ William Boyd
The dead air shapes the dead earth in the dead darkness, further away than seeing shapes the dead earth. It lies dead and warm upon me, touching me naked through my clothes. I said You dont know what worry is. I dont know what it is. I dont know whether I am worrying or not. Whether I can or not. I dont know whether I can cry or not. I dont know whether I have tried to or not. I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.
~ William Faulkner
I said You don't know what worry is. I don't know what it is. I don't know whether I am worrying or not. Whether I can or not. I don't know whether I can cry or not. I don't know whether I have tried to or not. I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.
~ William Faulkner
He'd lived for so long on a constant edge of anxiety that he'd almost forgotten what real fear was.
~ William Gibson
She is increasingly of the opinion that worrying about problems doesn't help solve them, but she hasn't really found an alternative yet. Surely you can't just leave them there.
~ William Gibson
His toes were making little squelching noises, each time he took a step, and what if the last thing you knew before you died was just some pathetic discomfort like that, like your shoes were soaked and your socks were wet, and you weren't ever going to get to change them? Rydell
~ William Gibson
They are frightened of the air.
~ William Golding
You got to be worried when they're agreeing about anything," she said. "Prophets. That's the last bloody thing you want prophets to do.
~ China Mieville
That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.
~ Chinese proverb
But a man cannot remain indifferent to the world around him; it worries him and torments him to think that he could be happier somewhere else, and that he is where he is simply through a mistake of fate
~ Chingiz Aitmatov
If you're worried about the possibility of rationalization at home or at work, you need to squeeze out the ambiguity from your goal. You need a black-and-white (B&W) goal. A B&W goal is an all-or-nothing goal, and it's useful in times when you worry about backsliding.
~ Chip Heath
don't create snakes out of ropes. You have enough to worry about.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Forgive me, Sister, I said silently, you who are the unsung heroine of this tale, the one who has the tougher role: to wait and to worry.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
They believe all connections are temporary, so to cling to them makes no sense. When someone is gone, they're gone. Live for now; the present is all there is. You can't know what will happen next, so why worry? Consequences are natural and.inevitable. just do what you feel you must.
~ Chris Wooding
Where is he?" Bell asked. "Do you think something might have happened to him?" Walter asked anxiously. "Latimer? Or maybe...
~ Christa Faust
He would feel horrible if anything happened to her and her baby, all because of him.
~ Christa Faust
Choose to trust God and to be at peace. Replace panic with praise and worry with worship.
~ Christie Brinkley
I sit on a rock, watching her. She seems better, I think. But now and then I see her staring off into the distance with a blank expression on her face, and it worries me.
~ Christina Baker Kline
As my health improves I begin to worry: this won't last. I will be sent away. I made it through this year because I had to, because I had no options. But now that I've experienced comfort and safety, how can I go back? These thoughts take me to the edge of despair, so I will myself—I force myself—not to have them.
~ Christina Baker Kline