"I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me."
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"Things take the time they take. don't worry. How many roads did St. Augustine follow before he became St. Augustine?"
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"Let God work in you, give the work to God, and have peace. Don't worry if He works through your nature or above your nature, because both are His, nature and grace."
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"When you make a thing, a thing that is new, it is so complicated making it that it is bound to be ugly. But those that make it after you, they don't have to worry about making it. And they can make it pretty, and so everybody can like it when others make it after you"
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"If there is a solution to a problem, there is no need to worry. And if there is no solution, there is no need to worry."
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"Scientists are coming to recognise the effects of the mind on physical health. The sense of relaxation associated with inner peace involves not only being physically at ease. If you are nagged by worry or seething with anger, you’re not really relaxed. The key to relaxation is peace of mind. The relaxation gained from alcohol, drugs or just listening to music may seem attractive, but it doesn’t last."
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"If a problem can be solved it will be. If it can not be solved there is no use worrying about it."
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"A good deed, "said the prophet Mohammed, "is one that brings a smile of joy to the face of another." Why will doing a good deed every day produce such astounding efforts on the doer? Because trying to please others will cause us to stop thinking of ourselves: the very thing that produces worry and fear and melancholia."
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"When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won't know where you are."
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"What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended."
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"If you think about your and my grandchildren, this is what really worries me. I don't want them - if I'm still alive by then - to say, 'Why didn't you do something about it?', when you could have done."
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"I don't listen to what people say about me and I don't read what they write about me. People can compare me to anyone they want to, but I'm not going to worry about it."
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"Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now."
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"I wonder why rich people always grow fat I suppose it's because there's nothing to worry them."
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"I'd almost say it's the worries that make married folks sacred to each other."
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"I'm not much of a golfer, I don't have any friends and all I like to do is go home and be alone, and not worry about ways not to lose."
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"No I don't get scared when returning kicks or worry about getting hurt. I have been doing this since childhood so I am used to it."
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"Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy."
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"You get sick of jokes, you know. Either I do them on TV, and then you worry, like, "Oh, everyone's gonna see it," so you chuck it, or you just get sick of saying it. After a while, a joke, if you say it too much, just becomes contrived, or fake-sounding."
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"I will probably write an hour a day and spend eight hours a day biting my knuckle and worrying about not writing."
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