Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
—Corrie Ten Boom (1892–1983) Dutch Jewish Humanist
Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher
A hundredload of worry will not pay an ounce of debt.
—George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh Anglican Poet, Orator, Clergyman
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
—William James (1842–1910) American Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician
There are more things, Lucilius, that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality.
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (c.4 BCE–65 CE) Roman Stoic Philosopher, Statesman, Tragedian
It is reported that more than 90% of what we worry about never happens. That means that our negative worries have less than a 10% chance of being correct. If this is so, isn’t being positive more realistic than being negative? Think about your own life. I’ll wager that most of what you worry about never happens. So are you being realistic when you worry all the time? No!
—Susan Jeffers (1938–2012) American Psychologist, Self-Help Author
That’s the secret to life … replace one worry with another.
—Charles M. Schulz (1922–2000) American Cartoonist, Writer, Artist
Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
—Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American Poet
When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.
—Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French Writer, Moralist
No one can work and achieve efficiently with a pack of worries on his back. People who enjoy life and radiate their happiness fear nothing. Fear never has led, and never will lead, a man victoriously in any phase of life … . A cheerful frame of mind, reenforced by relaxation, which in itself banishes fatigue, is the medicine that puts all Ghosts of fear on the run! So, get fun out of what you do—and you will do much, and be glad that you are alive.
—George Matthew Adams (1878–1962) American Columnist, Journalist
Most people go through life dreading they’ll have a traumatic experience.
—Diane Arbus (1923–71) American Photographer
Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don’t worry…I’m here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you.
—Charles M. Schulz (1922–2000) American Cartoonist, Writer, Artist
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
—Wendell Berry (b.1934) American Poet, Novelist, Environmentalist
I try not to worry about the future—so I take each day just one anxiety attack at a time
—Tom Wilson (1931–2011) American Cartoonist
It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.
—Wayne Dyer (1940–2015) American Self-Help Author
You’re neither right nor wrong because other people agree with you. You’re right because your facts are right and your reasoning is right—and that’s the only thing that makes you right. And if your facts and reasoning are right, you don’t have to worry about anybody else.
—Warren Buffett (b.1930) American Investor
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright
If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American Writer
I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: “Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.”
—Augustine of Hippo (354–430) Roman-African Christian Philosopher
A Decalogue of Canons for observation in practical life. 1. Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day. 2. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. 3. Never spend your money before you have it. 4. Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you. 5. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold. 6. We never repent of having eaten too little. 7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly. 8. How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened. 9. Take things always by their smooth handle. 10. When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) American Head of State, Lawyer
Does one really have to fret about enlightenment? No matter which way I turn, I’m homeward bound.
—Anthony de Mello (1931–87) Indian-born American Theologian
Do not be afraid of tomorrow; for God is already there.
—Unknown
Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.
—Cullen Hightower (b.1923) American Humorist
Borrow trouble for yourself if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbors.
—Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) British Children’s Books Writer, Short story, Novelist, Poet, Journalist
When we have nothing to worry about we are not doing much, and not doing much may supply us with plenty of future worries.
—Chinese Proverb
Blessed is the man who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.
—Anonymous
A warrior never worries about his fear.
—Carlos Castaneda (1925–98) Peruvian-born American Anthropologist, Author
If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. nothing in the paper today , we sigh.
—Paul Valery (1871–1945) French Critic, Poet
Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
—Democritus (c.460–c.370 BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher
Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three – all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.
—Edward Everett Hale (1822–1909) American Unitarian Clergyman, Writer
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