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d1e2dc6 Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create. creative inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking life-lessons optimism life inspirational worry creation Roy T. Bennett
9d1e7dc If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present. live happy letting-go-of-the-past future inspiration inspirational-quotes life-and-living life-quotes living happiness life inspirational living-in-the-present living-now living-life living-life-to-the-fullest worry focus Roy T. Bennett
a72b055 More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate. less-more stressed being-positive mind hate compassion inspiration inspirational-quotes life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life spirituality positive positive-thinking optimism life love inspirational life-purpose blessed authentic-living smiles worry judgment worrying stress smile Roy T. Bennett
ff128ce Don't waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy. time happy inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking optimism happiness life inspirational anger worry grudge regret Roy T. Bennett
b25e243 No amount of regretting can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future. inspiration inspirational-quotes life-and-living life-quotes life inspirational living-in-the-present living-life worry worrying Roy T. Bennett
a4649f2 If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever. inspirational problems worry The Dalai Lama
cd9070f Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. future reason inspirational stoic equanimity worry stoicism Marcus Aurelius
b6ae32e If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war. If the government is inefficient, top-heavy, and tax-mad, better it be all those than that people worry over it. Peace, Montag. Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change. war politics change happiness philosophy contests data popular brilliance taxation information motion questioning worry facts government peace ignorance thinking forget Ray Bradbury
e5ccb03 The more you pray, the less you'll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You'll feel more patient and less pressured. worship prayer worry Rick Warren
bb2d708 It is difficult to live in and enjoy the moment when you are thinking about the past or worrying about the future. You cannot change your past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about your future. Learn from the past, plan for the future. The more you live in and enjoy the present moment, the happier you will be. future learning inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking life-lessons optimism happiness life inspirational live-in-the-present worry Roy T. Bennett
255a8f0 How would your life be different if...You stopped worrying about things you can't control and started focusing on the things you can? Let today be the day...You free yourself from fruitless worry, seize the day and take effective action on things you can change. action change motivational life inspirational intent seize-the-day control worry Steve Maraboli
f41a662 Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labour or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ``What shall we eat?'' or ``What shall we drink?'' or ``What shall we wear?'' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. - Matthew 6:25-34 life importance value humble scripture worry Anonymous
13f4214 The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it's no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won't come. hopelessness worry J R R Tolkien
0f26edc Don't worry. Worry is useless. I worried anyway thoughts hazel-grace worry John Green
eaf6eaf If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it. action bravery doubt feelings follow-your-dreams good-enough just-do-something passion perseverance pursue-your-dreams risk take-action courage musician persistence faith fear confidence dreams motivational success inspirational actor just-do-it athlete concern business encouraging career security ambition determination contentment skill worry emotions gift talent insecurity Criss Jami
2e23bcd It makes me . . . anxious . . . to be away from you. worry Stephenie Meyer
cb5e2c1 The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme -- thinking too much. egotism worry thinking Virginia Woolf
f7fa717 There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: (1) Recklessness, which leads to destruction; (2) cowardice, which leads to capture; (3) a hasty temper, which can be provoked by insults; (4) a delicacy of honor which is sensitive to shame; (5) over-solicitude for his men, which exposes him to worry and trouble. war general fault reckless temper lead worry danger cowardice shame trouble destruction homer Sun Tzu
fcb525a Don't worry about it. The right thing will come at the right time. worry Danielle Steel
739534a Wake up! Wake up! Soon the person you believe you are will die - so now, wake up and be content with this knowledge: there is no need to search; achievement leads to nowhere. It makes no difference at all, so just be happy now! Love is the only reality of the world, because it is all ONE, you see. And the only laws are paradox, humor, and change. There is no problem, never was, and never will be. Release your struggle, let go of your mind, throw away your concerns, and relax into the world. No need to resist life; just do your best. Open your eyes and see that you are for more than you imagine. you are the world, you are the universe; you are yourself and everyone else too! It's all the marvelous Play of God. Wake up, regain your humor. Don't worry, just be happy. You are already free! life inspirational worry Dan Millman
b27b52b So I saw that there was only me. There was only me who could worry about what was happening here, inside these walls of my life. Other people had their own worlds to worry about, and in the end, they had to fend for themselves, just like us. people only-me walls worlds worry Markus Zusak
8d8e1a3 You're trying to eat grass that isn't there. Why don't you give it a chance to grow? worry patience Richard Adams
d1ea95e And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying. side-effects the-fault-in-our-stars worry John Green
feae7ba Stop your whining. If you are frightened, be silent. Whining is for prey. It attracts predators. And you are not prey. silence predator prey scare whine silent wolf cry worry fright Robin Hobb
a10b283 News of Daniel's disappearance does not alarm me as it might have done a week ago. Given recent events, very little alarms me as it might have done a week ago. I feel as if my supply of alarm has been exhausted, at least temporarily. worry danger Patricia C. Wrede
e43c144 Memphis found his smile. 'You know me, sir. I don't wear worry. resilience smiles worry Libba Bray
0454474 That porch is a happy-looking place, and my father - burdened, stoop-shouldered, cadaverously thin - doesn't seem to belong on it. out-of-place worry house worries Margaret Peterson Haddix
d88b218 He might have been encased in a thick glass bubble, so separate did he feel from his three dining companions. It was a sensation with which he was only too familiar, that of walking in a giant sphere of worry, enclosed by it, watching his own terrors roll by, obscuring the outside world. worry J.K. Rowling
38d5795 You worry about hurting me, but you never seem to worry about me hurting you. And I'm the one with the killer touch. killer-touch hurt worry Jennifer L. Armentrout
e418833 Ain't you thinkin' what's it gonna be like when we get there? Ain't you scared it won't be nice like we thought? No, she said quickly. No, I ain't. You can't do that. I can't do that. It's too much - livin' too many lives. Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes, it'll on'y be one. worry John Steinbeck
8a6ae1f Although claiming my true identity as a child of God, I still live as though the God to whom I am returning demands an explanation. I still think about his love as conditional and about home as a place I am not yet fully sure of. While walking home, I keep entertaining doubts about whether I will be truly welcome when I get there. As I look at my spiritual journey, my long and fatiguing trip home, I see how full it is of guilt about the past and worries about the future. I realize my failures and know that I have lost the dignity of my sonship, but I am not yet able to fully believe that where my failings are great, 'grace is always greater.' Still clinging to my sense of worthlessness, I project for myself a place far below that which belongs to the son, (p. 52). identity god love sonship worthlessness doubts failures grace dignity worry worries home son failure guilt Henri J.M. Nouwen
635927d "I was terrified of death by the time I was three or four, actively if not lucidly. I had frequent nightmares about snakes and scary neighbors. By the age of four or five, I was terrified by my thoughts. By the time I was five, the migraines began. I was so sensitive about myself and the world that I cried or shriveled up at the slightest hurt. People always told me, "You've got to get a thicker skin," like now they might say, jovially, "Let go and let God." Believe me, if I could, I would, and in the meantime I feel like stabbing you in the forehead. Teachers wrote on my report cards that I was too sensitive, excessively worried, as if this were an easily correctable condition, as if I were wearing too much of the violet toilet water little girls wore then." sensitivity worry Anne Lamott
820e57b What delicious abandon in the sleep of the child. Where do we lose it? faith insomnia maturation worry Frank Herbert
529e876 Replace worry with prayer. Make the decision to pray whenever you catch yourself worrying. men prayer women comfort jesus faith god worry decision worrying Elizabeth George
2bcfb40 Work on what is real rather than worry about what is unreal. mind women inspire god love unreal worry christian fake thought Elizabeth George
853f05a I don't complain about the horror of life; I complain about the horror of my life. The only fact I worry about is that I exist and suffer and can't even dream of being removed from my feeling of suffering. suffering worry existentialism horror Fernando Pessoa
d59352b It wasn't that the Gospel proved useful for my many worries but that the Gospel proved the uselessness of my worries and so refocused my whole attention. worry Henri J.M. Nouwen
0f40a83 She had been too early habituated to anxious reasoning to drop the habit suddenly. faith conditioning worry habit Thomas Hardy
6dbf94d Sometimes, without effort, you live in the moment. You don't regret the past or worry about the future, and in that moment everything flashes before your eyes , a clear snapshot of what has to be done, and everything pauses. photography time dream future past imagination life snapshot kodak-moment pause clear clarity worry moment regret nostalgia Rebecca McNutt
a429a86 He looked down at me without recognition, and I realized with a little stab of anxiety that he must have forgotten all about me, perhaps for some considerable time, and that he himself was so lost in the labyrinth of his own unquiet thoughts that I did not exist. thoughts realization worry Daphne du Maurier
2a4003f Exchange the bad habit of worrying with the excellent habit of trusting God. prayer faith trust god excellent exchange worry habit Elizabeth George
165484c Many people would have to hang by their teeth from a frayed cord suspended by a paper clip from a leaking hot air balloon over the Grand Canyon in order to feel what I feel standing on the third step of a stepladder trying to put millet in the bird feeder. sensitivity nervousness worry Ursula K. Le Guin
364a6f0 I should have learned mindfulness, and it's too late now because it's no good learning it when you're already in crisis: you have to start when things are good. But only the very, very oddest would think, Hey, my life is perfect. I know! I'll sit and waste twenty minutes Observing My Thoughts without Judgement. thoughts humour mindfulness self-deprecation distraction crisis worry Marian Keyes
af38597 When I really worry about something, I don't just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don't go. I'm too worried to go. I don't want to interrupt my worrying to go. worry J.D. Salinger
974c292 Folks say I've never been quite right since - but they only say that because I'm a poet, and because nothing ever worries me. Poets are so rare in Blair Water folks don't understand them, and most people worry so much, they think you're not right if you don't worry. worry worrying L.M. Montgomery
0486ff2 In the immediate vicinity, there might well be stability and peace. In the garden, a breeze may be swaying the branches of the plum tree and dust may slowly be gathering on the bookshelves in the living room. But we are aware that such serenity does not do justice to the chaotic and violent fundamentals of existence and hence, after a time, it has a a habit of growing worrisome in its own way. violence concern serenity chaos news worry peace Alain de Botton
1d02f3f He had only one thing to do and that was what he should think about and he must think it out clearly and take everything as it came along, and not worry. To worry was a bad as to be afraid. It simply made things more difficult. worry Ernest Hemingway
4a5a76d ...it's strange, isn't it, how you don't know how big a part of you someone is until they're threatened? And then you think you can't possibly go on if something happens to them, but the most frightening part is that, actually, you will go on, you'll have to go on, with them or without them. There's just no telling what you'll become risk fear change heart love truth realization see understand result realize outcome worry danger threaten soul Robin Hobb
ef8d38e Worry denies the power of God and produces no good results. Worry adds no value to your life. Eliminate it with God's help. free god life love result value worry power Elizabeth George
63fa695 Let's only care about the place where we are. There's beauty enough in being here and not anywhere else. If there's someone beyond the curve in the road, Let them worry about what's past the curve in the road, That's what the road is to them. nature meaning living god life it-is-what-it-is pantheism feeling worry paganism being Alberto Caeiro
0a47c46 If a transaction in progress appeared threatened with failure, if a shipment of goods seemed to have gone astray, or if a debtor appeared unable to repay his debt, Kamaswami was never able to persuade Siddhartha that it was useful to speak words of worry or of anger, to have a wrinkled brow, or to sleep poorly. worry peace Hermann Hesse
1021d63 In the same way that the stewards on the Titanic were more concerned about the unemptied ashtrays on the bar than the enormous hole in the side of the ship which was letting in zillions of gallons of water, I too was worrying about the unimportant and ignoring the vital. Sometimes it's easier that way. Because although there was little I could do about the huge hole, it was within my power to empty an asthray. worry Marian Keyes
ea8605a The shadow of the passions of the moment transversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things. worship distraction worry Victor Hugo
1f48623 You must learn to tell worry from thought and thought from prayer. Sometimes a light will go from your life, and a thought becomes a prayer til you are strong enough to stand under the weight of your own thought again. prayer worry meditation Richard Llewellyn
499455d "The thing about Americans," she said, "is that you're very concerned about everything all the time." worry Will Schwalbe
994dfd4 Well, let's argue this out, Mr Blank. You, who represent Society, have the right to pay me four hundred francs a month. That's my market value, for I am an inefficient member of Society, slow in the uptake, uncertain, slightly damaged in the fray, there's no denying it. So you have the right to pay me four hundred francs a month, to lodge me in a small, dark room, to clothe me shabbily, to harass me with worry and monotony and unsatisfied longings till you get me to the point when I blush at a look, cry at a word. We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much less fun if we were. Isn't it so, Mr Blank? There must be the dark background to show up the bright colours. Some must cry so that the others may be able to laugh the more heartily. happy fun happiness damaged harass inefficient pay longings monotony slow cry worry rich society job Jean Rhys
1db6b19 When you're feeding the second coachload of tourists that day you aren't thinking about the birthday party for fifty next week. coping life-lessons life worry food Robin McKinley
139179d Worry, my son?...I am not worried now and I never have or will. You must learn to tell worry from thought, and thought from prayer. Sometimes a light will go from your life...and your life becomes a prayer, till you are strong enough to stand under the weight of your own thought again. strength-from-prayer worry thought Richard Llewellyn
3626792 One thing is for sure, she thought. Work is the best antidote for worry. I'll get back to Twin Elms and do some more sleuthing there. worry Carolyn Keene
cb623f8 He didn't remember the very first time he actually died very well. It wasn't as bad as remediation, but he remembered being afraid and worried... and when he found himself alive again a few hours later with Mearth's wild green eyes peering down at him, he remembered still being afraid and worried. It was strange, he thought, to be afraid of being alive... but being alive was worse than being dead in his mind. pain suffering fear death life alive green worry memory Rebecca McNutt
e7040fb According to his habit, Theodore Roosevelt sought to harness anxiety through action. worry Doris Kearns Goodwin
8503d69 My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition. worry Michael Pollan
23b5103 And I was upset to find how really reluctant I was to leave my little flat. It was as if I was almost frightened. Spasms of prophetic homesickness pierced me as I rearranged the china and dusted it with my handkerchief, obsessive visions of burglaries and desecrations. fear hermetic homebody recluse the-black-prince iris-murdoch anxiety homesickness worry Iris Murdoch
1b59be4 He [satan] vies for the bedside position, hopping to be the first voice you hear. He covets your waking thoughts, those early, pillow-born emotions. He awakes you with words of worry, stirs you with thoughts of stress. If you dread the day before you begin your day, Mark it down; your giant has been in your head. thoughts giants worry dread stress voice Max Lucado
5ee345a Yeah, I worry what will happen when we stop running. When we go back to school. When she meets other boys. Boys who don't argue and snap at her. Boys who don't obsessively worry about her. Boys that could take her to a movie and stay right until the end, not have to leave halfway through because he started turning into a wolf. But she wouldn't pick up some random guy in the mall. Ever. So why was I over-reacting? I don't know. I saw the guy and something ignited in my brain, a flash-fire that burned away reason and common sense. If Simon hadn't stopped me, I'd have made an idiot of myself and called attention to us. Worse, I'd have embarrassed Chloe. I was over-protective enough as it was. Frothing at the mouth because a guy talked to her? Really not going help us get to that next anniversary. other-boys derek worry Kelley Armstrong
9e287c2 "But I had never caused my parents "a minute's worry." Didn't they know that worry proves you care? Didn't they realize that I needed their worry to assure myself that I was worth something?" love worry parents Katherine Paterson
81efbef Well, thank the gods,' he sighed. 'Oh? And what would it be you're thanking them for?' Bahzell inquired, and Brandark grinned. 'For making roads and letting us find one. Not that I'm complaining, you understand, but this business of following you cross-country without the faintest idea where I am can worry a man. humorous worried road roads worry thankful lost David Weber
449ae4f Worry is the antithesis of trust. You simply cannot do both. They are mutually exclusive. trust opposites worry Elisabeth Elliot
6f1feb1 The whole procedure of his thinking, Jason knew, was an imbecilic exercise; there was no compelling reason for him to seek an answer. And yet his mind bored on and on and he could not stop it, hanging with desperation to an impossibility to which it never should have paid attention. mind worry thinking Clifford D. Simak
0c00bb3 "When I agreed to give this address, I started trying to think what the best advice I'd been given over the years was. And it came from Stephen King twenty years ago, at the height of the success of Sandman. I was writing a comic that people loved and were taking seriously. King had like Sandman and my novel with Terry Pratchett, Good Omens, and he saw a madness, the long signing lines, all that, and his advice was this: "This is really great. You should enjoy it." And I didn't. Best advice I got that I ignored. Instead I worried about it. I worried about the next deadline, the next idea, the next story. There wasn't a moment for the next fourteen or fifteen years that I wasn't writing something in my head, or wondering about it. And I didn't stop and look around and go, This is really fun. I wish I'd enjoyed it more. It's been an amazing ride. But there were parts of the ride I missed, because I was too worried about things going wrong, about what came next, to enjoy the bit I was on. That was the hardest lesson for me, I think: to let go and enjoy the ride, because the ride takes you to some remarkable and unexpected places." enjoy-the-ride enjoy-life relax worry Neil Gaiman
5df0806 Are you worried? Jesus says there is nothing to worry about. It isn't our kingdom, it's God's. We take our cue from the King, and the King is not fretting over anything. He is in complete control. worry Edward T. Welch
f10c1fc God's self-revelation is a higher authority than our feelings. fear bible god worry Edward T. Welch
9543084 Is there ever anything to get worried about,' Peter couldn't help asking, 'when there are so many things to worry about duly? concerns worry worries Edward St. Aubyn
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