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"Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do."
"Worry is the enemy of love. You cannot be in love and be worried at the same time."
"If you took all of my money away, I would have it right back. I don't really care about money. I mean I do but why worry about it because I can make my own money all the time."
"Worry drains the mind of its power and, sooner or later, it injures the soul"
"Some of the things you read you get an immediate reaction to so I've stopped reading things now. I do worry about my family though. Some people do try some nasty things to get at them and try and get a reaction from them."
"When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?."
"I own the restaurant. There are a lot of cooks, waiters and waitresses in this restaurant. They worry about their problems. I worry about all the problems."
"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."
"Don't worry. You're just as sane as I am."
"Big? Sure. But, he can't catch mice! So for your big tree. No use? Then plant it in the wasteland - in emptiness. Walk idly around it and rest under it's shadow. No axe or saw prepares its end. No one will ever cut it down. Useless? You should worry!."
"If you are sure you are right, you need not worry what the world thinks."
"But they need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be at peace unless they can latch to an established and proven worry and having once found it they assume facial expressions to fit and go with it, which is, you see, unhappiness, and all the time it all flies by them and they know it and that too worries them no end."
"There's a tiredness of abstract inteligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor does it worry you like the tiredness of knowledge and emotion. It's a weightiness of the conscience of the world, an inability of the soul to breathe."
"It's not time to worry yet"
"I'm always using a towel around my head. Airports don't worry about me."
"I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened."
"I've seen many troubles in my time, only half of which ever came true."
"Maidens! why should you worry in choosing whom you shall marry? Choose whom you may, you will find you have got somebody else."
"I believe confidence is all about being positive concerning what you can do -- and not worrying over what you can't do. A confident person is open to learning, because she knows that her confidence allows her to walk through life's doorways, eager to discover what waits on the other side. She knows that every new unknown is a chance to learn more about herself and unleash her abilities."
"I'm not a toy boy, bellybutton band, so I don't have to worry about that. Actually, I never did."
