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“Life becomes happy, delightful and enjoyable when you set yourself free from worries.” -Author Unknown
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“Much that worries us beforehand can afterwards, quite unexpectedly, have a happy and simple solution. Worries just don’t matter. Things really are in a better hand than ours.” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906 - 1945)
 
“Sometimes you have to stop worrying, wondering and doubting. Have faith that things will work out.” -Author Unknown
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Jeb: Let’s make a list of new things to worry about.
Jed: Wow, I never would have thought of that.
Jeb: Sure, it’ll be fun!
 
“Only a lack of imagination saves me from immobilizing myself with imaginary fears.” -Author Unknown
 
“A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety.” -Bertrand Russell (Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872 - 1970))
 
“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.” -Roy T. Bennett: “The Light in the Heart” (25 February 2016)
 
“If a man can remember what he worried about last week, he has a very good memory.” -Author Unknown
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“There are two kinds of worries - those you can do something about and those you can’t. Don’t spend any time on the latter.” -Duke Ellington (Edward Kennedy ‘Duke’ Ellington (1899 - 1974))
 
If you’re worried and you can’t sleep,
Just count your blessings instead of sheep,
And you’ll fall asleep counting your blessings.
-Irving Berlin (1888 - 1989): “Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep” (1954) song
 
“If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.” -Morris West (Morris Langlo West (1916 - 1999))
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“We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.” -Cullen Hightower
 
“Stop worrying . . . and start making jokes!” -Author Unknown
 
“Stop telling men not to worry; all thinking men do; and such only are the ones who do the world’s work.” -Martin H. Fischer (1879 - 1962)
 
“The best antidote to worry is work.” -A. J. Cronin (Archibald Joseph Cronin (1896 - 1981))
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“Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.” -James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891): “Democracy” (1887)
 
“Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.” -Honoré de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
 
“When despair for the world grows in me . . . I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief . . . For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.” -Wendell Berry (Wendell Erdman Berry (born 1934)): “The Peace of Wild Things” (1968) at berrycenter.org
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“We sort our lives into carefully labeled boxes: things we definitely need to worry about; things we may need to worry about; things we already have worried about and it didn’t do any good; things we worried about where there was a definite payoff; things we are worried about worrying about; things that we definitely do not need to worry about.” -Anne Wilson Schaef
 
“Never borrow sorrow from tomorrow.” -Author Unknown
 
My Worry
 
A little bitty worry
     Started early in the day;
By noon it seemed my worry
     Hovered, standing in my way;
The things and thoughts
     I should have had
Got buried in my mind,
     Until my little worry turned
Into the horrid kind.
     By bedtime I was frantic -
What to do, oh what to do!
     And then I couldn’t go to sleep,
For worrying - fretting, too.
     By morning I was almost sick,
When suddenly and soon,
     My worry had been all worked out
Before the toll of noon;
     Then I looked back
And saw my worry
     Just for what it was -
A thing that didn’t happen,
     As a worry seldom does.
 
By Bonnie Daisy Nelson: as published in “A Garden of Poems” from the Salesian Collection
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“Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.” -Winston Churchill (Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 - 1965))
 
“The antidote to worry is purposeful action.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944) at https://www.briantracy.com
 
“I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.” -Dorothy Dix (pseudonym of Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer (1861 - 1951)): “Dorothy Dix, Her Book,” ‘Introduction’
 
“By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.” -Jack Dempsey
 
“Worry is like anything else you do: keep practicing and, unfortunately, you’ll get better at it.” -Charles F. Glassman: “Brain Drain: The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life” (2009)
 
“Worry is today’s mice nibbling on tomorrow’s cheese.” -Author Unknown
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“Worrying won’t stop the bad stuff from happening, it just stops you from enjoying the good.” -Author Unknown
 
“There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.” -L. M. Montgomery (Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874 - 1942)): “Anne of Windy Poplars” (1936)
 
“We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.” -Ethel Barrett (1913 - 1998)
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“Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.” -Author Unknown: Swedish proverb
 
“Let not your heart be troubled.” -John: as quoted in “The Bible” (King James Version (1611)), ‘The Gospel According to John,’ chapter 14, verse 1
 
Overheard: Don’t tell me worrying doesn’t do any good - I know better! Most of the things I worry about never happen.
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“Meditate upon exile, torture, wars, diseases, shipwreck . . . so that you may not be a novice to any misfortune.” -Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca, also known as Seneca the Younger (3 B.C.E. - C.E. 65))
 
“When you spend time worrying, you’re simply using your imagination to create things you don’t want.” -Shannon L. Alder at https://www.shannonalder.com/
 
“Worrying takes up just as much time as work, but work pays better dividends.” -Author Unknown
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“People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.” -Jean Molière (pseudonym of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (1622 - 1673))
 
“My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened.” -Michel de Montaigne (Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)): “Essais” (English: “Essays”) (1595), Book 3, chapter 1
 
“All forms of worry and anxiety are in essence fear . . .” -William J. Fielding (1927)
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“Worry: A state of mind that leads some persons to fear, every time the tide goes out, that it won’t come in again.” -Charles Wayland Towne: “The Foolish Dictionary, Executed by Gideon Wurdz, Master of Pholly, Doctor of Loquacious Lunacy, etc.” (1904)
 
“The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the Universe for God to worry about.” -Don Marquis (Donald Robert Perry ‘Don’ Marquis (1878 - 1937))
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A Worry
 
A worry crept into a mind,
Leaving claw marks and gashes behind.
     It turned the mind blue
     As it twisted each screw
Then it chuckled, and left, with a grind.
 
By Author Unknown
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“Don’t let your worries get the best of you. Remember, Moses started out as a basket case.” -Author Unknown
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Never Happens
 
We often distress ourselves greatly in the
apprehension of misfortune which
after all never happens at all.
 
We should do our best, and wait calmly the result,
We often hear of people breaking down from overwork;
but in nine cases out of ten they are really
suffering from worry or anxiety.
 
By John Lubbock (1834 - 1913)
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“Worry whomps and wails on weary souls.” -Terri Guillemets
 
“Wringing your hands only stops you from rolling up your sleeves.” -James Rollins
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“How to Stop Worrying and Start Living” (1948) is a self-help book by Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnagey (1888 - 1955))). Mr. Carnegie wrote in the preface of the book that he wrote it because he “was one of the unhappiest lads in New York.” He said that he made himself sick with worry because he hated his position in life. The goal of the book is to lead the reader to a more enjoyable and fulfilling life, helping them to become more aware of not only themselves, but of others around them. Mr. Carnegie addresses the everyday nuances of living, in order to get the reader to focus on the larger canvas of life. Available in print or e-reader version from your favorite book seller.
 
“Don’t fill your head with worries. There won’t be room for anything else.” -Author Unknown
 
“If you’re overwhelmed by thinking of all there is to be done, stop thinking about it so much and start working on it.” -Author Unknown
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“Worrying does not take away tomorrow’s troubles, it takes away today’s peace.” -Author Unknown
 
“Some of today’s worries are like puddles: tomorrow they will have evaporated.” -Author Unknown
 
“‘Each day has troubles enough of its own,’ so why anticipate them? If we do, we double them. For if our fear does not materialize, we have worried once for nothing; if it does materialize, we have worried twice instead of once. In both cases, it is foolish; worry doubles trouble.” -John R. W. Stott
 
“Do not worry too much - you will create a problem that was not even there in the first place!” -Author Unknown
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Every life has some trouble
     When you worry you make it double.
-Bobby McFerrin (born 1950)
 
“Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.” -Publius Ovidius Naso (also known simply as Ovid (43 B.C.E. - about C.E. 17))
 
“There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.” -Harold Stephens (born 1926)
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“Work is as necessary for peace of mind as for health of the body. A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. Worry upsets our whole system, work keeps it in health and order. Exercise of the muscles keeps the body in health, and exercise of the brain brings peace of mind.” -John Lubbock (1834 - 1913): “The Use of Life” (1894), ‘Industry’
 
“Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime, and too sleepy to worry at night.” -Leo Aikman (James Leo Aikman (1908 - 1978))
 
“Worry: Mountain climbing over molehills.” -Author Unknown
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“If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.” -William James (1842 - 1910)
 
“The more you pray, the less you’ll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You’ll feel more patient and less pressured.” -Rick Warren (Richard Duane Warren (born 1954)) at https://pastorrick.com/
 
Worry
 
Worry is a futile thing,
     It’s somewhat like a rocking chair;
Although it keeps you occupied,
     It doesn’t get you anywhere.
 
By Author Unknown
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“It only seems as if you’re doing something when you worry.” -L. M. Montgomery (Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874 - 1942)): “Anne of Windy Poplars” (1936)
 
“Don’t worry; we all make mistakes, so forget about the past and move on with life.” -Author Unknown
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“A worry a day drains the vitality away.” -Author Unknown
 
“Worry is a form of fear, and all forms of fear produce fatigue. A man who has learned not to feel fear will find the fatigue of daily life enormously diminished.” -Bertrand Russell (Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872 - 1970))
 
“Worry takes as much time as work and pays less.” -Author Unknown
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“Show me a worrying person and I will show you a person who does not know how to relax.” -Albert E. Cliffe (Albert Edward Cliffe (1892 - 1954))
 
“Nothing wastes more energy than worrying. The longer one carries a problem, the heavier it becomes. Don’t take life too seriously. Live a life full of serenity, not of regrets.” -Douglas Pagels (born 1950)
 
“You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.” -Janis Joplin (1943 - 1970)
 
“The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.” -Wayne Dyer (born 1940)
 
“Worry is an unhealthy and destructive mental habit.” -Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
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“There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” -Epictetus (about C.E. 55 - about C.E. 135)
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​“Many people worry a lot today about tomorrow because they didn’t worry a little yesterday about today.” -Author Unknown: “Capsules of Wisdom”
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“How much pain have cost us, the evils that have never happened.” -Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826): letter (21 February 1825) to Thomas Jefferson Smith
 
“We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.” -Etty Hillesum (Esther ‘Etty’ Hillesum (1914 - 1943))
 
“Worry never accomplishes anything. When you have a problem, it is best to concentrate on the solution to that problem, not the problem itself.” -Thomas D. Willhite (Thomas Dale Willhite (1940 - 1983))
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“A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. ‘I reckon,’ he said with a twinkle in his eye, ‘It’s because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.’” -Dorothea Kent (1916 - 1990)
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Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?
 
Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
 
Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
 
And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
 
So do not worry, saying, “What shall we eat?” or “What shall we drink?” or “What shall we wear?” For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
 
Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
 
By Jesus of Nazareth: as quoted in “The Bible,” ‘Matthew,’ chapter 6, verses 25 through 34
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“Worrying is carrying tomorrow’s load with today’s strength - carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.” -Corrie ten Boom (Cornelia ‘Corrie’ ten Boom (1892 - 1983)): “Clippings from my Notebook” (1982)
 
“Worrying is silly - it is like walking around with an umbrella, waiting for it to rain.” -Author Unknown
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“If any man or woman knows more about worrying than I do, that man or woman is sincerely to be pitied. To begin with, I come of honorable generations of worriers, all of whom seemed to be deeply sensible of their responsibility for the carrying on of a world which they did not create. My grandfather used to worry about the weather and crops. My mother worried with an elaboration and finish which really lent distinction to her performance. She could worry harder and longer on less provocation than anybody else I ever knew. When it became my turn to take up the burden of the universe I was quite as successful as she.” -Mary Boardman Page: “The Confessions of a Worrier” (1899)
 
“To worry about tomorrow is to be unhappy today.” -Author Unknown
 
How can you make the ‘Worry List’ you carry in your head a little shorter?
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Don’t shoulder the burdens of others! . . .
Each man has his own special troubles,
     His worries and problems and woes;
     Give aid when you can to each mortal,
     But try not to feel all his blows!
For you, too, have burdens to carry;
     And, if you just wear yourself out
     In agony over all others,
     How can you, your own troubles, rout?
-Gertrude Tooley Buckingham (1880 - 1971): “Good Advice”
 
“Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey!” -Barbara Hoffman
 
“In order to be done in a useful manner, worrying must be done quickly and then completely gotten over with. Worrying is a natural trait that helps us to figure out if there is something that needs to be done so that we can then do it, and if not, then stop worrying and get on with the daily activities and the great adventure of life!” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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“Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.” -Edward Everett Hale (1822 - 1909)
 
“There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way, they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.” -Josh Billings (pseudonym of Henry Wheeler Shaw (1818 - 1885))
 
“You can’t change the past, but you can a ruin a perfectly good present worrying about the future.” -Author Unknown
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“Why worry? If you’ve done the very best you can, worrying won’t make it any better.” -Walt Disney (Walter Elias ‘Walt’ Disney (1901 - 1966))
 
“Worry is like riding a roller coaster. It scares the wits out of you, and you always end up right where you started.” -Author Unknown
 
“What if we knew for certain that everything we’re worried about today will work out fine? What if . . . we knew the future was going to be good, and we would have an abundance of resources and guidance to handle whatever comes our way? What if . . . we knew everything was okay, and we didn’t have to worry about a thing? What would we do then? We’d be free to let go and enjoy life.” -Melody Beattie (Melody Lynn Beattie (born 1948)): “The Language of Letting Go” (1990) at https://melodybeattie.com/
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Unreal Troubles
 
If I must have an ill, may it be real,
That I may meet it eye to eye and fight,
And wheresoever it may strength reveal
Get after it with all my main and might.
The woe that but impends and wears the mind
With worry deep and most vexatious care,
Is harder fighting than the realler kind,
For when you come to strike - it isn’t there!
 
By John Kendrick Bangs (1862 - 1922): “The Cheery Way: A Bit of Verse for Every Day” (1920), ‘Unreal Troubles’ (March Fifteenth)
 
“Lots of men spend two dollars’ worth of worry over the loss of a quarter.” -Noah Lott (George V. Hobart): “The Silly Syclopedia” (1905)
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“Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.” -Corrie ten Boom (Cornelia ‘Corrie’ ten Boom (1892 - 1983))
 
“Worry is a total waste of time. It doesn’t change anything. All it does is steal your joy and keep you busy doing nothing.” -Author Unknown
 
“If you worry about what might be, and wonder what might have been, you will overlook what is.” -Author Unknown
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“It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge an elephant, but we can’t dodge a fly.” -Josh Billings (pseudonym of Henry Wheeler Shaw (1818 - 1885))
 
“Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime, you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.” -Mary Hemingway (1908 - 1986)
 
“I highly recommend worrying. It is much more effective than dieting.” -William Powell
 
“I’ve got 99 problems and 86 of them are completely made up scenarios in my head that I’m stressing about for absolutely no logical reason.” -Author Unknown
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“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.” -Leo Buscaglia (Felice Leonardo ‘Leo’ Buscaglia, also known as Leo F. Buscaglia (1924 - 1998))
 
“Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep always in the sunlight.” -Benjamin Franklin (Benjamin ‘Ben’ Franklin (1706 - 1790))
 
“Worrying is like wishing for something that you do not want.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
“All worry is your imagination. Why not use your imagination to explore happier options?” -Marta Davidovich Ockuly (born 1952) at www.JoyOfQuotes.com
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“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.” -A. J. Cronin (Archibald Joseph Cronin (1896 - 1981)): as quoted in “Today's Gift: Daily Meditations for Families” (1985) by Hazelden Publishing, page 11 at https://www.hazelden.org/
 
I was early taught to work as well as play,
My life has been one long, happy holiday;
Full of work and full of play -
I dropped the worry on the way -
And God was good to me every day.
-John Davison Rockefeller, Senior (1839 - 1937): verses written on his eighty-sixth birthday (8 July 1925)
 
“One day you’ll look back and realize that you worried too much about things that didn’t really matter.” -Author Unknown
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     The other day someone sent me a “Don’t Worry Book.” Have you seen it? The book purports to be the constitution and by-laws of the “Don’t Worry Club,” which is exempt from fees, unlimited as to membership, has no badge and has absolutely no requirements except that worry is strictly forbidden . . .
     Its best feature, to my mind, is its very simplicity. There are no public meetings or conventions, no wearisome harangues, no “boards,” no “secretaries” to entertain, no fellow members to buttonhole or bore you, no badge to publish you. In short, the “Don’t Worry Club” seems to be a sort of independent secret society whose members, unknown to each other, are not restricted to race or color . . .
     As for myself, I am starting a “Don’t Worry Club” forthwith, and I wish to be its president - not that I crave office, but because I am seething with enthusiasm and want to push the society. If all eligible men and women were to become members, I am persuaded that the list would be a long one . . .
-Paterfamilias: ‘Don’t Worry’ published in “The Evangelical Episcopalian” (1900)
 
“The day you stop worrying will be the first day of your new life.” -Leon Brown
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At MFOL! we are worried that we might be taken seriously . . . okay, that’s enough worrying for one day . . . now let’s have fun or do work . . . whatever prevents worry from taking over . . .
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