Quotes About Worry

We can go through our whole lives worrying about our future happiness, and totally miss where true peace lives-right here, right now.

Oh Soul! You worry too much. Your arms are heavy with treasures of all kinds.

We're very physical creatures, and we worry about how we look sometimes more than our spiritual selves

Worry is spiritual nearsightedness, a fumbling way of looking at little things, and of magnifying their value.

Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith.

Worrying is the greatest egoism!

Worry is the greatest seed [cause] for the worldly life because worrying is the greatest egoism. If the egoism leaves, then worries will go away.

Worrying is like praying for crap!

Worry is the destroyer of understanding.

Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.

The only way I'd worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not theirs.

You worry that we're becoming monsters. Merlin, we already were monsters. You didn't make us any worse.

Non mi preoccupo mai del futuro, arriva sempre abbastanza presto

I am not frightened of you Kyle. I am frightened for you.

You're not worried about anything, are you? said Danglers. It seems to me everything's going perfectly for you. That's exactly what worries me, replied Dantes. I don't think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

You have that alarmed look, one caused by a very unpleasant thought about something that might not even happen. Those unpleasantries don't usually happen, you know. What were you thinking about, dear Cora?" "Catastrophe," she whispered. "Well, stop it." Bonnie began unbuttoning the dress. "Just stop it.

Worry never helped anything, so why turn to it during times of need? It won't nurture or heal you—quite the opposite, actually. It's so much better to put the effort into something creative as a way to quietly meditate through positive action. Create, create, create!

Lack mentality" directed toward time is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Constant worries and fears concerning lack of time are energy draining and creativity blocking! Remind yourself often, "There is plenty of time!" Say it over and over again, and your tension will dissipate. Our schedules feel freer once we release the concern that there isn't enough time.

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. 'I reckon,' he asid, with a twinkle in his eye, 'It's because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.'

I'm kind of worried. What are we supposed to do here in the middle of nowhere? Same as we always do for the kids... pretend like we know what we're doing.

First, people are born to worry. That's how we made it to the top of the food chain. Constant anxiety is the curse that comes with consciousness, with sentience. We're the only species smart enough to fear not only actual, present threats, but also a myriad of imagined threats. Worse, we're the only species burdened with the knowledge of our own mortality. And this makes us the most neurotic animal on Earth.

Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die.

This is as good a place as any to insist that all the characters in Evangellyfish are fictional, and I made them all up out of my own head. Any resemblance to any real people, living or dead, is their own darn fault. If they quit acting like that, the resemblance would cease immediately and we wouldn't have to worry about it.

A Chinese proverb goes: "We do not live for a hundred years but worry enough for a thousand" (Char, 1970, p. 15).