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"Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murderers. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or our purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls."
"Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls."
"Our young people are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination, and the like. These never presented a practical difficulty to any man,--never darkened across any man's road, who did not go out of his way to seek them. These are the soul's mumps, and measles, and whooping- coughs, and those who have not caught them cannot describe their health or prescribe a cure. A simple mind will not know these enemies."
"Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence."
"Don't worry about your life cause if you hold it too close you lose it."
"Millions of working, uninsured Americans go to bed every night worrying what will happen to them and their families if a major illness or injury strikes."
"I worry constantly and obsess over things, but I just don't let fear stand in the way of doing something that I really want to do."
"It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted."
"Earn trust, earn trust, earn trust. Then you can worry about the rest."
"Just as we don't spend a lot of time worrying about how all those poets out there are going to monetize their poetry, the same is true for most bloggers."
"Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance. Tell yourself enough vivid stories about the worst possible outcome of your work and you'll soon come to believe them. Worry is not preparation, and anxiety doesn't make you better."
"I wish my parents had spent more time worrying about my education than me being a star."
"I just worry because I know I say a lot, often. It doesn't bother me, it's more about the people that get affected around me."
"Worry... is rust upon the blade."
"Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to."
"Worrying doesn't make any difference, but working does and spirituality gives one the strength to work"
"Well, the first days are the hardest days, don't you worry anymore. When life looks like Easy Street there is danger at your door."
"One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen."
"I'm not going to worry about the Cure slipping down into the second division; it doesn't bother me because I never expected to be in the first division anyway"
"Worrying about things beyond your control is a pretty good formula for illness."
