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Quotes About Worry

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
~ Benjamin Franklin
You become a worrier by practicing worry. You can become free of worry by practicing the opposite and stronger habit of faith. With all the strength and perseverance you can command, start practicing faith.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
I get jealous, I get mad, I get worried, I get curious. But that's only because I love you so much and I don't want to lose you.
~ Unknown
Today is a tomorrow that we thought about yesterday. Don't worry about tomorrow. Take care of today because if you take care of today tomorrow will take care of itself.
~ Unknown
Life and death are beyond our control. We can't control where, how, or when we are born and we can't control where, how, or when we may die. Then why worry about it.
~ Unknown
Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, it empties today of its strength. Stop worrying and let life go on, happily.
~ Unknown
Remember one thing in life that worrying unnecessarly will only make your life more complicated and bitter.
~ Unknown
Worrying about things you cannot control is folly. Focus only on those few things you have any control over, and your life becomes much simpler.
~ Jeffrey Fry
Over-thinking ruins you, ruins the situation, twists things around, makes you worry and makes everything worse than it actually is.
~ Unknown
Get in the habit of seeing that every worry, every concern, every possible situation, provides fuel for positive action. Take this action!
~ Unknown
Worry changes nothing, only positive actions change bad situations into good, only the light within will remove darkness.
~ Unknown
Worrying does not take away tomorrow's troubles, it takes away today's peace. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself and create your own sunshine.
~ Unknown
I look placid, you see, that's why people think I'm fine. Inside I worry a lot.
~ Maeve Binchy
Exasperated, you finally said, 'You think I'm not worried too? Of course I'm worried. What I don't need is your worry on top of mine. I need your support
~ Maggie Nelson
Oh,' she burst out. 'I hate this—I hate it.' 'What?' 'Just—this. I feel as though I'm waiting for something and I'm getting scared it might never come.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
Eliza doesn't say that she worries about Anne, all alone, so young, without her, wherever she may be. That for a long time she lay awake at night, whispering her name, just in case she was listening, from wherever she was, in case the sound of Eliza's voice was a comfort to her. The pain of wondering if Anne was distressed somewhere and that she, Eliza, was unable to hear her, unable to reach her.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
Gansey had once told Adam that he was afraid most people didn't know how to handle Ronan. What he meant by this was that he was worried that one day someone would fall on Ronan and cut themselves.
~ Maggie Stiefvater
The future, as always, felt too abstract to worry about, too nebulous, too otherworldly. What mattered was the here and now.
~ Unknown
but the habits of frugality ingrained during years of perpetual worry about money, and daily, hourly, weighing of cost and benefit, meant she could never take an auto, not on her birthday, not ever.
~ Unknown
The things about which we most often jest are generally, on the contrary, the things that worry us but that we do not wish to appear to be worried by, with perhaps a secret hope of the further advantage that the person to whom we are talking, hearing us treat the matter as a joke, will conclude that it is not true.
~ Marcel Proust
rejoicing in a peace which brings only an increase of anxiety,...
~ Marcel Proust
Kidd could feel an incipient hernia when he even thought about that night. . . .
~ John Sandford
For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost- good manners, ease and beauty? Ladies were not ladies anymore, and you couldn't trust a gentleman's word.
~ John Steinbeck
There is no knowing how or why dread comes on a parent. Of course, many times apprehension arises when there is no reason for it at all. And it comes most often to the parents of only children, parents who have indulged in black dreams of loss.
~ John Steinbeck