Quotes About Worry

I think we worry way too much about where books should fit inside genres. In a romance, the hero and heroine are on a journey together, and no matter how awful it gets, by the end of the book they'll be in love, with the probability of a happy ending.

Your doubts are generated by fear, and fear is a series of distorted thoughts.

It's nice to see that look of alarm on the faces of the others.

Fear has many faces.

People talk about writing convincing teenagers like it's a really clever thing to do, but it comes incredibly naturally to me. Which, of course, is slightly a worry.

What we got is NOW, Huck, and now is forever. Until it ain't. So, you can't worry over nothing except putting off the end a your story as long as you can, and finishing it with a bang.

You can't change people's irrational beliefs, Mickie. Trust me—I know." I looked at Ernie. "So does Ernie." Ernie glanced at me and nodded. "And that guy, he's not the guy you have to worry about. The ones to worry about are the ones who cloak their discrimination behind some other excuse so you can't call them out.

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.

Philippians 4:6 Don't worry about anything, but in everything, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Simple, daily faith saves us from chronic worry. When we abide in Christ and rest in His promises, no alarm can overwhelm us for long, and no anxiety can sustain its attack.

The billions of flowers blooming around the globe are preachers with a single message: "Don't worry! God cares for our needs.

The preacher John R. Rice said, "Worry is putting question marks where God has put periods.

Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be known to God. – Philippians 4:6

casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you. – 1 Peter 5:7

Worriers are most concerned they are not nurturing and caring enough toward other people. They worry about letting other people down, that other people are upset with them, and that other people are unhappy. In fact, worriers tend to be better than nonworriers in anticipating the feelings of other people.8

If you hate risk and worry, start early.

It is simplistic to advocate that if you stop worrying about your children, they'll automatically have no problems. To be alive is to have problems. But it is certain that, if children don't have their parents' concern about them added to their ordinary difficulties, they will do better. Worrying about a child does not solve the lack of differentiation of self that leads to it.

He was a very useful bird, because he gave Grace and Hope and me something weaker than ourselves to worry over; and he sang as though he appreciated it.

Worry drains the mindof its power and, sooner or later, it injures the soul

You truly cannot afford the luxury of even one negative thought. A worrisome thought is like an embryo: it starts off small but grows and grows. Soon it takes on a life of its own. Stop feeding what doesn't serve you.

Goals and plans take the worry out of living.

Worrying about things beyond your control is a pretty good formula for illness.

Worrying about things beyond your control is a pretty good formula for illness. And most of the things we so concern ourselves with about never actually happen.