Quotes About Worry

The more you worry about your spending, the less you focus on increasing your capacity.

Worry has never solved a problem.

A foundation built upon trust will accomplish more than a foundation built upon worry.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice. Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens.

All night long I worried, not about myself but about Jimmy. I imagined him looking for me, running through the park, looking in the movie theatres. He was a good man, considerate and kind, but he was not strong. He had never been through any kind of bad hardship before. So I worried.

I once thought love was supposed to be nothing but bliss. I now know it is also worry and grief, hope and trust.

Now that our marriage is over, I know what love is. It's a trick on the brain, the adrenal glands releasing endorphins. It floods the cells that transmit worry and better sense, drowns them with biochemical bliss. You can know all these things about love, yet it remains irresistible, as beguiling as the floating arms of long sleep.

As a precaution, Ruth had also gnawed over the worst possibilities—brain tumor, Alzheimer's, stroke—believing this would ensure that it was not these things. History had always proven that she worried for nothing.

No, what worries me, I readily admit, is everything (that is to say, anything and everything) - everything, that is, except the All, which I find soothing.

The happiness at getting what you want is not usually commensurate with the worry leading up to it.

He spent too much of his time responding to disasters that never happened.

I don't care what it was. What if that happens tonight? What if the Home Underground collapses on the Lost Boys? What if the nursery set falls over? I don't want to be responsible for killing Kristy.

The thing is, said Gilheeny, is that we live in constant fear of our lives. It makes the blood pressure elevate like an Arabian geyser, and the tension headaches we get would knock the balls off a bull with the twist in the maxillary sinuses themselves.

I felt free this time, knowing I had a job and that I wasn't going to be graded. I could simply experiment and create. The thought occurred to me that if I always lived under the certainty of God's provision instead of the certainty of Lexi's worry, I might always feel this free.

It always seemed like a snake to him, his anxiety. Waiting just out of sight, ready to slither up his spine, hissing its familiar taunt: "You aren't where you should be. Something bad is going to happen because you aren't where you should be.

But as long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

More of fear than of any other thing has been created.

To live a good life is not to live free of troubles, but to live free of needless worry.

Rimuginava continuamente quella preoccupazione da sola e poteva sviscerarla come voleva, ma non riusciva a trovare serenità con nessuna ipotesi.

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There was one big rule in life - the things you worried about never happened, and the things that happened were never the ones you expected. Not that this bit of advice helped Johnny much. It simply meant that he spent more time guessing at what the unexpected disasters in his life would be.

Worry and worship are mutually exclusive.