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Quotes About Worry

MARGARET Have any of you Seen that poor child Alizon? I think she must be lost. NICHOLAS Who isn't? The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as much like home as we can. Now don't be worried. She can't be more lost than she was with us.
~ Christopher Fry
Worrying about originality is like worrying about the best place to hang your wall phone.
~ Heidi Julavits
Be bad. Be wicked. And you should worry. But don't.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
I often think it would be such a luxury to go mad, and not have to worry about anything. [...] There would be some sort of doctor there to tell me: "Don't worry, Mary, it's just that you're mad. Now be quiet and take this pill." And I would think, So that's all is is, and I would be glad. But aloud I would say, "What? I'm perfectly sane! You're mad...." Only mildly, though; just for show, really.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Stop living a day at a time and stop worrying about age.
~ Helen Reddy
I am here only to be truly helpful. I am here to represent Him Who sent me. I do not have to worry about what to say or what to do, because He Who sent me will direct me. I am content to be wherever He wishes, knowing He goes there with me. I will be healed as I let Him teach me to heal.
~ Helen Schucman
Genetics plays a role in determining who gets an anxiety disorder, what type it is (e.g., worry, compulsive
~ Henry Emmons
Many believers are silent concerning Christ, worried that they may not know enough or that they will say the wrong thing about Christ. However, the Lord can use any believer's speaking. What any believer can say for sure with one hundred percent accuracy is, 'I have found Him and 'come and see.
~ Henry Hon
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is the rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution which destroys the machinery but the friction. Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices
~ Henry Ward Beecher
It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
He prescribed more physical exercise as far as possible, and as far as possible less mental strain, and above all no worry—in other words, just what was as much out of Alexey Alexandrovitch's power as abstaining from breathing.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Nothing matters. You get yourself into a state in which you imagine things which have no basis in reality... One begins for some reason to worry about something and, if one allows oneself to go on doing that, one gradually imagines all kinds of things. It is a kind of self-indulgence and one gets into a perpetual daydream. It is essential to stop this process and face the real world -- which is never so bad as all that.
~ Leonard Woolf
Worry is refusing the given. Today's care, not tomorrow's, is the responsibility given to us, apportioned in the wisdom of God. Often we neglect the thing assigned for the moment because we are preoccupied with something that is not our business just now. How easy it is to give only half our attention to someone who needs us—friend, husband, or little child—because the other half is focused on a future worry.[14]
~ Leslie Ludy
Worry is refusing the given. Today's care, not tomorrow's, is the responsibility given to us, apportioned in the wisdom of God. Often we neglect the thing assigned for the moment because we are preoccupied with something that is not our business just now. How easy it is to give only half our attention to someone who needs us—friend, husband, or little child—because the other half is focused on a future worry.[14] Whenever you are tempted to dwell on fearful
~ Leslie Ludy
For a pandemic of moderate severity, this is one of our greatest challenges: helping people to understand when they do not need to worry, and when they do need to seek urgent care.
~ Margaret Chan
The day I worry about cleaning my house is the day Sears comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner.
~ Roseanne Barr
All I know for certain is this: Caiaphas—and probably Annas also—is still extremely worried about a man who was most definitely crucified and buried.
~ Janette Oke
WAIT to finish my chores that mornin'. I needed to sneak off to my favorite log along the crik bank and find myself some thinkin' time. Too many things had been happening too fast; I was worried that my whole world was about to change. I didn't want it changed. I liked things jest the way they were, but if I
~ Janette Oke
I wasn't particularly worried; running is overrated anyway, and sport only makes you sweaty and smug and wears out the knees.
~ Jasper Fforde
Hamlet would worry about having nothing to worry about if he had nothing to worry about
~ Jasper Fforde
To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
Stoutland, stout." It was clear that Stoutland did not want anyone to worry. It wanted to be as independent as Litten! Maybe that's why the two got along so well.
~ Unknown
I was in danger of drowning, and nobody lost at sea worries about whether the spar they cling to is made of elm or oak.
~ Jeanette Winterson