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Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come...

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How can a person deal with anxiety? You might try what one fellow did. He worried so much that he de...

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Worry divides the mind.

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Max LucadoTraveling Light: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear

Times will change for the better when you change.

There are very few things in the mind which eat up as much energy as worry. It is one of the most di...

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My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition.

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Michael PollanCooked: A Natural History of Transformation

There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.

Worry is a state of mind based on fear.

Though life is made up of mere bubbles 'Tis better than many have For while we've a whole lot of tr...

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As I fingered my way through the songs, I felt my worries slough away. My music has always been the ...

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Patrick RothfussThe Wise Man's Fear

The thing is, it's not uncool to worry about people who seem like they're going on the wrong path. T...

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It's not uncool to worry about people who seem like they're going on the wrong path. There's nothing...

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Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.

Well, maybe I just want to know the future so I can prepare myself for what's coming. If good things...

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Paulo CoelhoThe Alchemist

My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how ...

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It's easy for you people here; you live a safe, purposeless life, nothing to do, nothing to worry ab...

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What torments of grief you endured from evils that never arrived.

Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and ...

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Some of your hurts you have cured And the sharpest you still have survived But what torments of gr...

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Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up

I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the co...

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The more you pray, the less you'll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You'll feel more...

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Rick WarrenThe Purpose of Christmas

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to wor...

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Don't worry that children never listen to you worry that they are always watching you.

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

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The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

I wanted to get away,' said she; 'everybody wants to plague and worry me about nothing. They'll be a...

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Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from bore...

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Let me assure you that my intent is not to offend or merely be provocative. I'm simply worried.

When speculation has done its worst two and two still make four.

T'ain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.

My perfect guy wears converse, is totally laid back, and doesn't worry about being cool.

Sonia lives her life fully. If she dies tomorrow, she'll die happy. If she lives the way you want he...

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One of life's great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred pound C...

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Frightened people live in their own special hell.

It makes me . . . anxious . . . to be away from you.

Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not ...

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Sometimes I wish I could drive a car, but I'm gonna drive a car one day, so I don't worry about that...

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When this flood blocks the road I am worried more by my soil getting washed, than by getting late to...

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There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general:(1) Recklessness, which leads to destruct...

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It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad dea...

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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.

She had been too early habituated to anxious reasoning to drop the habit suddenly.

How much pain they have cost us the evils which have never happened.

For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation.

Many people would have to hang by their teeth from a frayed cord suspended by a paper clip from a le...

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She must love me, to worry about me. She must still be capable of love.

His ideas assumed a kind of stupefied and mechanical quality which is peculiar to despair.

The shadow of the passions of the moment transversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eter...

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The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge...

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In cities where peace and the arts flourish, men are more consumed by jealousy, worry, and anxiety t...

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I never worry about being driven to drink I just worry about being driven home.

I never worry about being driven to drink I just worry about being driven home.

Anxiety is fear of one's self.

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing and the overtaking a...

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Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the n...

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Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his...

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When you're betting for tiles in an archery contest, you shoot with skill. When you're betting for f...

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ZhuangziThe Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow but only saps today of its strength.

My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don't have to worry too much about what everybody is going...

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My life is full of drama, and I don't have time to worry about something as petty as what I look lik...

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When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn't exist...

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In the immediate vicinity, there might well be stability and peace. In the garden, a breeze may be s...

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Alain de BottonThe News: A User's Manual

Of course I realized there was a measure of danger. Obviously I faced the possibility of not returni...

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When I first came to America, you know, I would look at the newsstands and see the women on the maga...

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If there were rankings for press conferences, I wouldn't have to worry about dropping out of the top...

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I was terrified of death by the time I was three or four, actively if not lucidly. I had frequent ni...

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Anne LamottHelp Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.

...above all, do not fret until you know that you really have a cause for it.

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Arthur Conan DoyleThe Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

I mean, everyone agrees with stress tests for banks. I mean that's clear. But banks should do that o...

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What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but yo...

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I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.

We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse. ...

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Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.

Worry is a god invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the ...

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Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin ...

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A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing ...

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Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old perso...

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Worries flee before a spirit of gratitude.

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

When worry is present, trust cannot crowd its way in.

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Some people spend so much time worrying about what might happen that they never enjoy what is happen...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

As long as you look only at the situation in the world today, it will be very hard . . . to overcome...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Jesus used the carefree attitude of the birds to underscore the fact that worrying is unnatural. I a...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Man has always been beset by worry, and the pressures of modern life have aggravated the problem . ....

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Pray for wisdom to deal with whatever is worrying you. Pray that God will act to change the circumst...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Only the Holy Spirit can give us peace in the midst of the storms of restlessness and despair. We sh...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Memorizing the Bible is most important. “Thinking God’s thoughts” will take the place of worried, an...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Worries flee before a spirit of gratitude.

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

When worry is present, trust cannot crowd its way in.

Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Some people spend so much time worrying about what might happen that they never enjoy what is happen...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

As long as you look only at the situation in the world today, it will be very hard . . . to overcome...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Jesus used the carefree attitude of the birds to underscore the fact that worrying is unnatural. I a...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Man has always been beset by worry, and the pressures of modern life have aggravated the problem . ....

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Pray for wisdom to deal with whatever is worrying you. Pray that God will act to change the circumst...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes