Quotes About Worry

It stands to reason, however, that a child who has been abused, or who has been often threatened with the withdrawal of parental love—and unfortunately we are becoming increasingly aware of what a disturbing proportion of children in our culture are so mistreated—will be so worried about keeping his sense of self from coming apart as to have little energy left to pursue intrinsic rewards.

Those who always worry about what can go wrong might be well prepared against dangers but will never know how enjoyable life can be.

Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them," said Epictetus

We have to unclutter our brains from worries that maybe people don't like us. Women tend to worry about popularity it doesn't matter if they like you. They need to respect you. They need to show that respect for you in your pay check. And that needs to be okay.

On the occasions fear or worry overcome you, relax! I used to panic whenever negativity coursed through my mind, thinking I was doomed because of this principle of thoughts become things, but I discovered something long ago when I thought I was being fired at PW: while there are indeed times in all our lives when we simply cannot stop our runaway trains of fear or negativity, at all times we are free and able to simultaneously start a new train running.

Nerves provide me with energy. They work for me. It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that I get worried.

The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.

Don't worry about anything. Worrying never solved anything. All it does is distort your mind.

If she'd had the cash in her pocket, she would've just given it to him. Money had always been a kind of burden to her. If she had it, she spent it, and when she didn't have it, she worried about how she would live. She wished she had enough so she wouldn't feel so anxious all the time. Would there ever be enough?

At the crowded bar, men were drinking and making jokes, but there hadn't been a soul in that squalid room—smelling of burnt dried squid and alcohol—who wasn't worried about money and facing the terror of how he was supposed to take care of his family in this strange and difficult land.

so often that she'd feared for

The most important thing is God's blessing and if you believe in God and you believe in yourself, you have nothing to worry about.

A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before him.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

I was worried about my mom more than I was worried about the president. And then I was worried about the president, and then I was worried about myself.

Getting and keeping my immunity became very important to me. For I needed to take care of myself and my family. No one else was worried about me.

The right hemisphere of the mind is free from worry, while the left side is full of doubts about everything that is going on in the mind.

The founders worried constantly about how their envisioned republic might get hijacked, especially by ambitious officials who would transform it into an elective despotism. This is what they meant.

Sahara knew she should be worried about the fact that she'd been in bed with a man who'd caused that kind of damage with a momentary and, according to him, minor loss of telekinetic control during intimacy, but she felt her lips kick up at the corners. So we literally made the earth move? A slight pause, before Kaleb said, I suggest we don't engage in sex in populated areas. The cool comment made her burst into laughter.

his consort didn't recognize the fear that drove her to ask such questions, a fear that could be encapsulated in seven simple words that formed a vicious sentence: Will this flaw make you reject me? ... She knew she held Raphael's heart, she knew, and yet a wary, wounded part of her worried he'd change his mind one day, find her no longer worthy of loving.

We have to live in today," she said, speaking to herself as much as to Beth. "Worrying about the future just steals the now from us." "So does living in the past, doesn't it, Ellie?

Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

human beings are the only creatures to spend the present driving themselves crazy about the future.

Somewhere I read that human beings are the only creatures to spend the present driving themselves crazy about the future.