Quotes About Worry

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided.

We've been calling your phone every second the last two days." "I'm OK, Dad." "We were worried. But then I thought to myself, you know what the Lion King says." "'I laugh in the face of danger.'" "That's my son!

I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter.

Fear of anything other than God is mutually exclusive to faith in God.

Panic---a deep abiding, free-floating anxiety, often without any reason or logical basis.

Such simple acceptance of your desires is like the dropping of fertile seed into an ever-prepared soil. When you drop your desire in consciousness as a seed, confident that it shall appear in its full-blown potential, you have done all that is expected of you. To be worried or concerned about the manner of their unfoldment is to hold these fertile seeds in a mental grasp and, therefore, to prevent them from really maturing to full harvest.

Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty all may live above the troubles of life worry is a poison and happiness is a medicine.

He had an anxious smile on his face. And he was clutching a letter in his hand.

You ain't got no self-respect, you feel like an insect Well don't you worry buddy, cause here he comes

One thing I've very quickly learned is that if you wake up every morning worrying about what's in the press, you would go completely and utterly potty.

She cares too much, that little one. It is not safe. No, it is not safe." —HERCULE POIROT

If they only knew how stupid it was to worry about stranger danger now. I heaved a sigh. "I met him yesterday by the Seven-Eleven. He's been dead since Monday.

All of us have worries. We worry because we are intelligent beings. Intelligence predicts, that is its essence; the same intelligence that allows us to plan, hope, imagine, and hypothesize also allows us to worry and anticipate negative outcomes.

At about the time France caved in, I remember some of the men saying, 'That could be the end.' We were very worried that the government would sue for peace. The idea that this very exciting life might suddenly come to an end, and that we might all find ourselves back doing office work,

Cause all of the stars, Have faded away Just try not to worry, You'll see them someday, Take what you need, And be on your way and Stop crying your heart out

The true sadness of reality it's that it is forgotten that magic is everywhere. We buried it with worry and tedium because deep inside we all know it takes strength to wield a wand. It takes energy and belief to step back from the fog of reality and recognize the wonder in almost everything. You're resisting what is inevitable, and when you finally figure this all out things will be both heavier and more fantastic.

The man who is always worrying whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.

I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.

We imagine that a little anxiety and worry is an indication of how wise we really are; it may be an indication of how wicked we really are.

Have you been bolstering up that stupid soul of yours with the idea that your circumstances are too much for God? Put all "supposing" on one side and dwell in the shadow of the Almighty. Deliberately tell God that you will not fret about that thing. All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.

All our fretting and worrying is caused by planning without God.

Fretting rises from our determination to have our own way. Our Lord never worried and was never anxious, because His purpose was never to accomplish His own plans but to fulfill God's plans. Fretting is wickedness for a child of God.

Worrying always results in sin. We tend to think that a little anxiety and worry are simply an indication of how wise we really are, yet it is actually a much better indication of just how wicked we are. Fretting rises from our determination to have our own way. Our Lord never worried and was never anxious, because His purpose was never to accomplish His own plans but to fulfill God's plans.

Do not worry about your life." Don't take the pressure of your provision upon yourself. It is not only wrong to worry, it is unbelief; worrying means we do not believe that God can look after the practical details of our lives, and it is never anything but those details that worry us.