Quotes About Worry

It never ceases to amaze me," [Chrestomanci] said, "the way people always manage to worry about the wrong things. My dear sir, do you realise that you, your son, and four of your pupils, are all likely to be burnt unless we do something? And here are you worrying about timetables.

Sometimes with a flutter of agitated worry that felt like a beetle was trapped inside my ribs. p. 90

Another one says she has asnap-off crotch. What do you think she means by that? I'm a little worried,though, about all these outbreaks of lifestyle diseases. I carry a reinforced ribbed condom at all times. One size fits all. But I have a feeling it's not much protection against the intelligence and adaptability of the modern virus.

Examples:         ââ'¬Â¢  We know what it feels like to be overlooked for a promotion.         ââ'¬Â¢  We know how frustrating it is to have a great looking website that doesn't result in sales.         ââ'¬Â¢  We know what it feels like to worry you're not doing the right thing.

I worried this course was going to be a waste of time. I was wrong. I made more progress in six hours than I've made in ten years.

When you're worried about something,' said Henry abruptly, 'have you ever tried thinking in a different language?

Clearly 'worry' was the mark of a primitive and spiritually unevolved person.

Worry! What a waste of time. All the holy books were right. Clearly 'worry' was the mark of a primitive and spiritually unevolved person. What was that line from Yeats, about the bemused Chinese sages? All things fall and are built again. Ancient glittering eyes. This was wisdom. People had been raging and weeping and destroying things for centuries and wailing about their puny individual lives, when—what was the point? All this useless sorrow?

He's so particilar, Rembrandt. Even his religious subjects — it's as if the saints came down to model for him in the life… You could pick him out of a line-up, couldn't you…? Goodness written all over him and yet always that twitch of worry and disquiet. That subtle shade of the betrayer

Statues are too much like dolls, and dolls are creepy. You keep expecting them to blink. And the ones that smile, like this?" Eve kept her lips tight together and she curved them up. "You know they've got teeth in there. Big, sharp, shiny teeth." I didn't. But now I've got to worry about it.

Now look", my mother said. "When I feel myself starting to worry, I just tell myself, I will not worry about something that will never happen, and that always calms me, because most of the things we worry about will never happen. Why don`t you give that a try?

Your plan appears to be sound, as well as potentially very destructive. I see that it is a mistake to offend you." "Yes, yes, it is," Mari agreed, a smile flickering briefly to life. "Stay on my good side and you won't have to worry about it.

I have lived a long life and had many troubles, most of which never happened. MARK TWAIN

Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.

But a doctor learns, because he has to, not to worry actively about patients until the worrying can do some good; meanwhile, they have to be walled off in a quiet compartment of the mind. They don't teach that at medical school, but it's as important as your stethoscope.

the Dalai Lama suggests, "With worry and anxiety, repeatedly cultivate the following thought. 'If the problem can be remedied then there is no need to worry about it. And if there is no solution, there is no point in being worried, because nothing can be done about it anyway.' Remind yourself of these facts repeatedly.

My life has been filled with terrible misfortunes — most of which never happened. Mark Twain

Now consider your reader's psychological reactions when confronted with a concept-threatening change in the opening of your novel. Mr. Reader begins to worry. So far, so good; he may be willing to worry for a long time. But in today's hurried, impatient world, that Reader can't be expected to worry passively about the same vague and unchanging bad situation for several hundred pages. He needs something a bit more concrete to worry about.

On the news tonight the new President said there's no reason for anyone to worry about the situation. He didn't say which situation.

And it was respect he needed, infinitely more than love. Just not to have to worry about whether people respect you. Not ever to have to feel that people are being nice to you because they are sorry for you, or afraid of you.

Don't be a little paranoid; worry about everything, or let it all go.

You will not suddenly develop wealth consciousness if and when you become "wealthy." It's the other way around. You develop wealth consciousness by eliminating worry, by trusting in the universe and in your own inner resources. Once you secure your wealth consciousness, true abundance is just around the corner. — Richard Carlson

Worry doesn't change a single thing. Just live.

combat worry, such as keeping a prayer journal and rereading it when I'm under attack.