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"Jesus used the carefree attitude of the birds to underscore the fact that worrying is unnatural. I am learning in my own life, day by day, to keep my mind centered on Christ."
"We are all . . . children of this universe. Not just Earth, or Mars, or this system, but the whole grand fireworks. And if we are interested in Mars at all, it is only because we wonder over our past and worry terribly about our possible future."
"What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet."
"With negative energy you can make the positive energy. A flower will become compost someday, but if you know how to transform the compost back into the flower, then you don't have to worry. You don't have to worry about your anger because you know how to handle it - to embrace, to recognize, and to transform it. So this is what is possible."
"I don't have any time to stay up all night worrying about what someone who doesn't love me has to say about me."
"No human thing is of serious importance."
"The saying goes, 'The sage rests, truly rests and is at ease.' This manifests itself in calmness and detachment, so that worries and distress cannot affect him, nothing unpleasant can disturb him, his Virtue is complete and his spirit is not stirred up."
"Those who act with few desires are calm, without worry or fear."
"If there is no solution to the problem then don't waste time worrying about it. If there is a solution to the problem then don't waste time worrying about it."
"She doesn't ever worry, if she wants it she'll get it on her own"
"The words are the important thing. Don't worry about tunes. Take a tune, sing high when they sing low, sing fast when they sing slow, and you've got a new tune."
"Grace keeps us from worrying because worry deals with the past, while grace deals with the present and future."
"I saw that worrying had come to nothing and gave it up. And took my old body and went out into the morning, and sang."
"Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice."
"I never worry about action, but only inaction."
"The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves."
"Care about your children. Just bless them instead of worrying, as every child is the little Buddha who helps his parents to grow up."
"I release all feelings of worry and guilt. Throughout life, the two most futile emotions are guilt for what has been done and worry about what might be done."
"I've long stopped worrying about who invented whom - God man or man God."
"My advice: Don't waste so much time worrying about your skin or your weight. Develop what you do, what you put your hands on in the world."
