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Ulcers aren't the result of what you eat. You get ulcers from what's eating you. (Anonymous)
A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work. (Anonymous)
Worry is wasting today's time cluttering up tomorrow's opportunities with yesterday's troubles. (Anonymous)
Worry is the product of feverish imagination working under the stimulus of desires... It is a necessary resultant of attachment to the past or to the anticipated future, and it always persists in some form or other until the mind is completely detached from everything. (Meher Baba)
Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in? (Nicholson Baker)
It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls. (Bruce Barton)
I've never thought sitting around worrying helps anything, except to help shorten your life. (Robert Bateman)
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade. (Henry Ward Beecher)
I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say. (Ingrid Bergman)
Worrying about what someone else 'should' be doing is a great way to avoid what we need to do. (Eleanor Blair)
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength. (Corrie Ten Boom)
Yes, I worry about the craziest things, but better me than someone less qualified. (Robert Brault)
If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure. (H. Jackson Brown, Jr.)
There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry. Two carefree days, kept sacredly free from fear and apprehension. One of these days is Yesterday... And the other day I do not worry about is Tomorrow. (Robert Jones Burdette)
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. (Leo Buscaglia)
Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. (Dale Carnegie)
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone. (Coco Chanel)
People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold. (John Jay Chapman)
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. (G. K. Chesterton)
Don't worry about avoiding temptation... As you grow older, it will avoid you. (Winston Churchill)
Worrying does not solve anything. (Beverly Claridge)
Why worry about it? Just get to work. (Kim Denise)
These difficult times have helped me to realize how infinitely rich and beautiful life is. And that so many things one worries about are of no importance whatsoever. (Isak Dinesen)
Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray. (Benjamin Disraeli)
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. (Norman Doidge)
If worry were an effective weight-loss program, women would be invisible. (Nancy Drew)
People should not worry as much about what they do but rather about what they are. If they and their ways are good, then their deeds are radiant... it is not our works which sanctify us but we who sanctify our works. (Meister Johann Eckhart)
Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
There is only one way to happiness, and that is cease worrying about the things which are beyond the power of our will. (Epictetus)
I used to worry about what life was for - now being alive seems sufficient reason. (Joanna Field)
Do you think that your worrying can prevent anything from happening? Whatever happens is supposed to happen and whatever doesn't, isn't. (Fannie Flagg)
Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry. (B. C. Forbes)
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. (Benjamin Franklin)
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. (Robert Frost)
Worry is like a rocking chair – it gives you something to do but it doesn't get you anywhere. (Dorothy Galyean)
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry... (Mahatma Gandhi)
- at age 103, the oldest worker in the United States...
Don't worry about anything. Worrying never solved anything. All it does is distort your mind. (Milton Garland)
Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting. (Samuel Goldwyn)
What an artist worries about when he plans his pictures, is something... difficult to put into words. Perhaps he would say he worries about whether he has got it 'right.' Now it is only when we understand what he means by this modest little word 'right' that we begin to understand what artists are really after. (Ernst Gombrich)
Don't worry. Worry is useless. I worried anyway. (John Green)
Now that all your worry has proved such an unlucrative business, / Why not find a better job. (Hafiz)
Let the world continue on while you create. Life can't be passing you by unless you're really worried about where everyone else is going. (Hap Hagood)
I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul. (J. B. S. Haldane)
I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective. (Stephen Hawking)
-on William Merritt Chase...
Chase used to say, 'When you're looking at your canvas and worrying about it, try to think of your canvas as the reality and the model as the painted thing.' (Charles Hawthorne)
Worry a little every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything. (Mary Hemingway)
If I'm worrying about a painting, I put it up and see if I detest it quickly or slowly. (Jenny Holzer)
-to Max Stern on travel invitation...
Worry, about the 'thousand and one' details entailed. My one-track mind has to be relieved of these worries completely or I cannot get started working on my paintings, or even get to sleep at night. (E. J. Hughes)
Worry is the interest paid on trouble before it is due. (William Ralph Inge)
If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system. (William James)
How simple it is to see that all the worry in the world cannot control the future. (Gerald G. Jampolsky)
'Taint't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes. (Sarah Orne Jewett)
Don't worry, be crappy. Revolutionary means you ship and then test... Lots of things made the first Mac in 1984 a piece of crap - but it was a revolutionary piece of crap. (Guy Kawasaki)
We all must admit that everything is fine and there's no need in the world to worry, and in fact we should realize what it would mean to us to UNDERSTAND that we're not REALLY worried about ANYTHING. (Jack Kerouac)
I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people. (Bob Knight)
If you have fear of some pain or suffering, you should examine whether there is anything you can do about it. If you can, there is no need to worry about it; if you cannot do anything, then there is also no need to worry. (Dalai Lama)
As for worrying about what other people might think - forget it. They aren't concerned about yours. They're too busy worrying about what you and other people think of theirs. (Michael Leboeuf)
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. (John Lubbock)
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble. (George Washington Lyon)
Worrying makes you cross the bridge before you come to it. (Harvey Mackay)
Why should we... constantly worry ourselves... as to what should be done and how, and what should not be done and how not? We know that the train carries all loads, so after getting on it why should we carry our small luggage on our head to our discomfort, instead of putting it down in the train and feeling at ease? (Ramana Maharshi)
You can sweat by not practicing or you can pick up your clarinet. There's good sweat and there's bad sweat. (Eric Maisel)
Forget yesterday - it has already forgotten you. Don't sweat tomorrow - you haven't even met. Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift - today. (Steve Maraboli)
Beatrice and Virgil...
Don't worry about being good... Aspire to be authentic. (Yann Martel)
Worriers spend a lot of time shoveling smoke. (Claude McDonald)
For those whose heart and whose attention is immersed in the truth, they don't need to have to worry. (Mooji)
From the moment of my birth, the angels of anxiety, worry, and death stood at my side, followed me out when I played, followed me in the sun of springtime and in the glories of summer. They stood at my side in the evening when I closed my eyes, and intimidated me with death, hell, and eternal damnation. (Edvard Munch)
There are points where you worry that you might be putting too much in and alienating the audience. But, funnily enough, some of those fears aren't correct. (Christopher Nolan)
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all. (Ovid)
If you're painting, you're free from worry. If you're painting, you're happy. (Hilary Page)
Nothing wastes more energy than worrying. The longer one carries a problem, the heavier it becomes. Don't take life too seriously. Live a life full of serenity, not of regrets. (Douglas Pagels)
You become a worrier by practising worry. You can become free of worry by practising the opposite and stronger habit of faith. With all the strength and perseverance you can command, start practising faith. (Norman Vincent Peale)
Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change. (Peace Pilgrim)
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself. (Pythagoras)
Worry is a waste of emotional reserve. (Ayn Rand)
Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due. (Will Rogers)
You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
- The Dying Animal...
Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up. (Philip Roth)
Tend to your vital heart, and all that you worry about will be solved. (Rumi)
Oh soul, you worry too much. You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Of anything less, why do you worry? You are in truth the soul, of the soul, of the soul. (Rumi)
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. (Charles Schulz)
That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another... (Charles Schulz)
Worrying about pleasing the customer may yield sales, but not necessarily better art. It is the defining issue between art and craft. Craft is directed for the client's use, which diminishes the artist's expression. (Alan Soffer)
There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem. (Harold Stephens)
- The Man Who Quit Money..
The person with the least worry over the compromises he must make is, of course, the person who doesn't compromise. (Mark Sundeen)
We are, perhaps, unique among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still. (Lewis Thomas)
-from Dangerous Book For Boys...
Don't worry about genius and don't worry about not being clever. Trust rather to hard work, perseverance, and determination. (Sir Frederick Treves)
Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust. (Samuel Ullman)
Worry is a think-stream of fear which, if encouraged, becomes a wide channel into which all other thoughts flow. (Author unknown)
When you stop worrying about things you can't control, then you will be much happier. (Van Waldron)
I have learned not to worry about love, but to honor its coming with all my heart. (Alice Walker)
Sometimes I've drawn on autobiographical material, maybe situations that I've felt trapped by, and turned them into something else, but in a very superficial way. When you find yourself thinking and worrying about certain things they become ridiculous. (William Wegman)
I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor: Never worry about your heart till it stops beating. (E. B. White)
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