"Why should all life be work, when we all can borrow. Let's think only of today, and not worry about tomorrow."
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"When youre sharing a foxhole with another man, you don't worry about what color he is, just whether or not he will protect your back"
"I worry about my judgment when anything I believe in or do regularly begins to be accepted by the American public."
"Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have"
"The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time."
"If you have worries, there is no better way to eliminate them than by walking them off. Just take them out for a walk. They may take wings and fly away!"
"The psychological condition of fear is divorced from any concrete and true immediate danger. It comes in many forms: unease, worry, anxiety, nervousness, tension, dread, phobia, and so on. This kind of psychological fear is always of something that might happen, not of something that is happening now."
"Worry means the mind is controlling you. Worry is always pointless. A solution never comes out of worry."
"Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up."
"One of my big milestones came when I turned forty and promised myself to stop worrying about all the things I thought I might do but never really would. I was very relieved when I realized that you can actually complete a project by dropping it. That's how I "completed" learning to cook and learning German, becoming a good skier, and a list of other things too long to recite!"
"God does not want us to be living in the past, in shame, in fear, or in the future, in worry. He wants us to be living in the present, in now, with Him."
"When you see the setting, wait for the rising. Why worry about a sunset or a fading moon?"
"There is nothing that wastes the body like worry."
"Abandon knowledge and your worries are over."
"From the passions arise worry, and from worry arises fear. Away with the passions, and no fear, no worry."
"Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness."
"If the grass is greener in the other fellow's yard- let him worry about cutting it."
"It's not radical Islam that worries the US -- it's independence"
"If you don't compromise your gift, if you write each day as well as you can, and then submit your work and not worry about it and go on to the next piece, you suddenly find oddly enough that you're no more interested in the applause than the silence. You don't hear either one of them. You can never listen to the naysayers. If you do you won't survive."
"Pause and remember - Everyone gets discouraged and feels lost at times. Don't worry - life will get better. A new way is being made for you. Keep moving forward even if it's just baby steps."