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Worry
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“We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.”
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“If one burdens the future with one's worries, it cannot grow organically. I am filled with confidence, not that I shall succeed in worldly things, but that even when things go badly for me I shall still find life good and worth living.”
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“... want won't kill you half as quick as worry will.”
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“ ... trouble always seems heavier when it is only one's thought and not one's bodily activity that is employed about it.”
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“'Don't worry.' Surely the most fatuous words in the English or any other language.”
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“It isn't the things that happen to us, it's the things we think are going to happen to us that drive us almost crazy ... ”
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“He would simply tell her not to worry, which was about as effective as ordering someone not to think of an elephant.”
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“I have always been better able to confront the disaster that is real than the one I imagine.”
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“She hated it when people told her not to worry. Worry was a very private affair, on a par with sex and religion.”
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“A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow ...”
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“... most people worry so much, they think you're not right if you don't worry.”
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“Someone has said that signs of aging in the body start as wrinkles in the mind — the wrinkles of worry, regrets, remembered sorrows and frustrations.”
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“[On thoughts:] You can't hinder 'em, any more than you can the birds that fly in the air; but you need n't let 'em light and make a nest in your hair.”
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“Most of the things one worries about never happen.”
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“... that anguish that sleeps all day on the heart like a heavy worm, and wakes up at night to feed.”
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“Worries are the most stubborn habits in the world. Even after a poor man has won a huge lottery prize, he will still for months wake up in the night with a start, worrying about food and rent.”
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“You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you.”
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“Worry is surely one of life's more futile activities...”
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“Worrying about where to begin puts you in a fair way to waste your life worrying, without getting noticeably closer to beginning.”
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“Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.”
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“Worry doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrows, it empties today of its strength.”
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“Worry is like racing the engine of an automobile without letting in the clutch.”
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“Worry is like a rocking chair — it keeps you moving but doesn't get you anywhere.”
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“... when you borrow trouble you give your peace of mind as security.”
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“ ... you seem to grieve for what is not so ... and there is no need to let your heart run ahead into evils that may never come.”
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“That was a snake that would lay eggs in my brain.”
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“... it ain't never no use puttin' up your umbrell' till it rains!”
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“... it is not work that kills, but 'worry' ...”
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“The best antidote to worry, I have always believed, is work and more work ...”
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“... 't ain't worth while to wear a day all out before it comes.”
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“I'm planning to give up worrying. I want to, but I'm worried I won't be able to.”
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“Worry is an infirmity; there is no virtue in it. Worry is a spiritual nearsightedness; a fumbling way of looking at little things and magnifying their value.”
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“Worrying is one of my few forms of prayer.”
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“Worry is the last infirmity of the weak-minded.”
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“My parents are highly evolved worriers. ... If worrying were an Olympic sport, my parents' faces would have graced the Wheaties box a long time ago.”
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“... and added a request not to worry, which is perhaps the least soothing message capable of human utterance.”
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“A worried man could borrow a lot of trouble with practically no collateral ...”
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“To-morrow has trouble to lend ; To all who lack to-day; / Go, borrow it — borrow, griefless heart, / And thou with thy peace wilt pay!”
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“Worry is the antithesis of prayer. Prayer is an acknowledgment of faith; worry is a denial of faith.”
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“If life has taught me anything it's that while most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.”
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“I'm not worried ... That's what ingenuity and insomnia are for.”
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“Yes, it does make the load rather heavy if you carry tools for every eventuality.”
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“... I worry if I don't worry.”
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“I lived in the moment of the now, without concern about tomorrow's pitfalls. If unpleasantness lurked there, I would drink the bitter cup only once, while worriers drink it twice.”