56 Quotes Tagged: worry

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

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.

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

Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up

She tried to worry that something terrible had happened to him, but didn't believe it for a moment. Nothing terrible ever happened to him, though she was beginning to think that it was time it damn well did. If nothing terrible happened to him soon maybe she'd do it herself. Now there was an idea.

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.

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

I love that you're worried,' she says, 'but you're worried about all the wrong things.

Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?

Don't worry. You don't know enough to worry. That's God's truth. Who do you think you are that you should worry, for crying out loud? It's a total waste of time. It presupposes such a knowledge of the situation that it is in fact a form of hubris.

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

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

It was never worth worrying about someone you didn't love. And it wasn't love if you didn't worry.

One can only worry so much, however; then one becomes philosophical. I suppose philosophy is merely sublimated worry.

Sonia lives her life fully. If she dies tomorrow, she'll die happy. If she lives the way you want her to live, she'll die miserable. So leave her alone, okay?