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d1e2dc6	Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.	creation creative inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking worry	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.	focus future happiness happy inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes letting-go-of-the-past life life-and-living life-quotes live living living-in-the-present living-life living-life-to-the-fullest living-now worry	Roy T. Bennett
a72b055	More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.	authentic-living being-positive blessed compassion hate inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes judgment less-more life life-purpose life-quotes living love mind motivation optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking smile smiles spirituality stress stressed worry worrying	Roy T. Bennett
ff128ce	Don't waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.	anger grudge happiness happy inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-quotes living optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking regret time worry	Roy T. Bennett
b25e243	No amount of regretting can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future.	inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes life life-and-living life-quotes 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.	equanimity future inspirational reason stoic stoicism worry	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.	brilliance change contests data facts forget government happiness ignorance information motion peace philosophy politics popular questioning taxation thinking war worry	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.	prayer worry worship	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 happiness inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring learning life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes live-in-the-present living optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking 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 control inspirational intent life motivational seize-the-day 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	humble importance life scripture value 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	hazel-grace thoughts worry	John Green
eaf6eaf	If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.	action actor ambition athlete bravery business career concern confidence contentment courage determination doubt dreams emotions encouraging faith fear feelings follow-your-dreams gift good-enough insecurity inspirational just-do-it just-do-something motivational musician passion perseverance persistence pursue-your-dreams risk security skill success take-action talent worry	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 thinking worry	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.	cowardice danger destruction fault general homer lead reckless shame temper trouble war worry	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!	inspirational life worry	Dan Millman
8d8e1a3	You're trying to eat grass that isn't there. Why don't you give it a chance to grow?	patience worry	Richard Adams
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.	only-me people walls worlds worry	Markus Zusak
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.	cry fright predator prey scare silence silent whine wolf worry	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.	danger worry	Patricia C. Wrede
e43c144	Memphis found his smile. 'You know me, sir. I don't wear worry.	resilience smiles worry	Libba Bray
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
0454474	That porch is a happy-looking place, and my father - burdened, stoop-shouldered, cadaverously thin - doesn't seem to belong on it.	house out-of-place worries worry	Margaret Peterson Haddix
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.	hurt killer-touch 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).	dignity doubts failure failures god grace guilt home identity love son sonship worries worry worthlessness	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.	comfort decision faith god jesus men prayer women worry worrying	Elizabeth George
2bcfb40	Work on what is real rather than worry about what is unreal.	christian fake god inspire love mind thought unreal women worry	Elizabeth George
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
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.	existentialism horror suffering worry	Fernando Pessoa
0f40a83	She had been too early habituated to anxious reasoning to drop the habit suddenly.	conditioning faith habit worry	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.	clarity clear dream future imagination kodak-moment life moment nostalgia past pause photography regret snapshot time worry	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.	realization thoughts worry	Daphne du Maurier
2a4003f	Exchange the bad habit of worrying with the excellent habit of trusting God.	excellent exchange faith god habit prayer trust worry	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.	nervousness sensitivity 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.	crisis distraction humour mindfulness self-deprecation thoughts 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.	chaos concern news peace serenity violence worry	Alain de Botton
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 power result value worry	Elizabeth George
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	change danger fear heart love outcome realization realize result risk see soul threaten truth understand worry	Robin Hobb
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
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.	being feeling god it-is-what-it-is life living meaning nature paganism pantheism worry	Alberto Caeiro
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.	meditation prayer worry	Richard Llewellyn
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.	cry damaged fun happiness happy harass inefficient job longings monotony pay rich slow society worry	Jean Rhys
499455d	"The thing about Americans," she said, "is that you're very concerned about everything all the time."	worry	Will Schwalbe
ea8605a	The shadow of the passions of the moment transversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things.	distraction worry worship	Victor Hugo
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
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.	peace worry	Hermann Hesse
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.	dread giants stress thoughts voice worry	Max Lucado
e7040fb	According to his habit, Theodore Roosevelt sought to harness anxiety through action.	worry	Doris Kearns Goodwin
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 thought worry	Richard Llewellyn
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.	alive death fear green life memory pain suffering worry	Rebecca McNutt
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.	anxiety fear hermetic homebody homesickness iris-murdoch recluse the-black-prince worry	Iris Murdoch
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
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 parents worry	Katherine Paterson
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.	derek other-boys worry	Kelley Armstrong
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 food life life-lessons worry	Robin McKinley
449ae4f	Worry is the antithesis of trust. You simply cannot do both. They are mutually exclusive.	opposites trust worry	Elisabeth Elliot
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 lost road roads thankful worried worry	David Weber
f10c1fc	God's self-revelation is a higher authority than our feelings.	bible fear god worry	Edward T. Welch
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
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 thinking worry	Clifford D. Simak
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 worries worry	Edward St. Aubyn
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-life enjoy-the-ride relax worry	Neil Gaiman

Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.

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Roy T. Bennett

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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.

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Roy T. Bennett

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More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.

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Don't waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.

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Roy T. Bennett

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No amount of regretting can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future.

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Roy T. Bennett

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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.

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The Dalai Lama

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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.

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Marcus Aurelius

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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.

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Ray Bradbury

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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 patient and less pressured.

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Rick Warren

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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.

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Roy T. Bennett

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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.

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Steve Maraboli

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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

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Anonymous

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The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it's no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won't come.

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J R R Tolkien

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Don't worry. Worry is useless. I worried anyway

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John Green

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If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.

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Criss Jami

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

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Stephenie Meyer

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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.

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Virginia Woolf

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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.

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Sun Tzu

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Don't worry about it. The right thing will come at the right time.

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Danielle Steel

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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!

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Dan Millman

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You're trying to eat grass that isn't there. Why don't you give it a chance to grow?

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Richard Adams

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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.

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Markus Zusak

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And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying.

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John Green

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Stop your whining. If you are frightened, be silent. Whining is for prey. It attracts predators. And you are not prey.

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Robin Hobb

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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.

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Patricia C. Wrede

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Memphis found his smile. 'You know me, sir. I don't wear worry.

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Libba Bray

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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.

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J.K. Rowling

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That porch is a happy-looking place, and my father - burdened, stoop-shouldered, cadaverously thin - doesn't seem to belong on it.

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Margaret Peterson Haddix

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You worry about hurting me, but you never seem to worry about me hurting you. And I'm the one with the killer touch.

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Jennifer L. Armentrout

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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.

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John Steinbeck

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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).

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Henri J.M. Nouwen

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"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."

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Anne Lamott

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What delicious abandon in the sleep of the child. Where do we lose it?

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Frank Herbert

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Replace worry with prayer. Make the decision to pray whenever you catch yourself worrying.

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Elizabeth George

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Work on what is real rather than worry about what is unreal.

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Elizabeth George

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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.

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Henri J.M. Nouwen

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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.

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Fernando Pessoa

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

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Thomas Hardy

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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.

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Rebecca McNutt

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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.

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Daphne du Maurier

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Exchange the bad habit of worrying with the excellent habit of trusting God.

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Elizabeth George

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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.

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Ursula K. Le Guin

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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.

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Marian Keyes

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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.

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J.D. Salinger

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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.

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L.M. Montgomery

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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.

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Alain de Botton

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Worry denies the power of God and produces no good results. Worry adds no value to your life. Eliminate it with God's help.

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Elizabeth George

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...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

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Robin Hobb

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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.

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Ernest Hemingway

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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.

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Alberto Caeiro

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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.

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Richard Llewellyn

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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.

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Jean Rhys

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"The thing about Americans," she said, "is that you're very concerned about everything all the time."

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Will Schwalbe

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

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Victor Hugo

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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.

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Marian Keyes

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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.

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Hermann Hesse

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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.

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Max Lucado

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According to his habit, Theodore Roosevelt sought to harness anxiety through action.

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Doris Kearns Goodwin

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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.

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Richard Llewellyn

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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.

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Rebecca McNutt

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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 Pollan

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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.

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Iris Murdoch

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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.

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Carolyn Keene

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"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?"

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Katherine Paterson

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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.

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Kelley Armstrong

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When you're feeding the second coachload of tourists that day you aren't thinking about the birthday party for fifty next week.

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Robin McKinley

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Worry is the antithesis of trust. You simply cannot do both. They are mutually exclusive.

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Elisabeth Elliot

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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.

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David Weber

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God's self-revelation is a higher authority than our feelings.

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Edward T. Welch

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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.

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Edward T. Welch

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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.

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Clifford D. Simak

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Is there ever anything to get worried about,' Peter couldn't help asking, 'when there are so many things to worry about duly?

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Edward St. Aubyn

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"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."

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Neil Gaiman