Sunday, April 8, 2018 – A World of Worry
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble. ~ George Washington
If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you. ~ Calvin Coolidge
I never worry about action, but only inaction. ~ Winston Churchill
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. ~ John Lubbock
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. ~ Robert Frost
It only seems as if you are doing something when you’re worrying. ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do. ~ Olin Miller
We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic. ~ Cullen Hightower
Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination. ~ Christian Nestell Bovee
The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it. ~ F. L. Lucas
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. ~ Ernest Hemingway
Few people understand the psychology of dealing with a highway traffic cop. Your normal speeder will panic and immediately pull over to the side. This is wrong. It arouses contempt in the cop-heart. Make the bastard chase you. He will follow. ~ Johnny Depp
There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them. ~ Robert Benchley
If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles, but I’d have fewer imaginary ones. ~ Don Herold
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which will never happen. ~ James Russell Lowell
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. ~ Mark Twain
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today. ~ E. Joseph Cossman
If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you’ll die a lot of times. ~ Dean Smith
You can never worry your way to enlightenment. ~ Terri Guillemets
When you suffer an attack of nerves you’re being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system? ~ Russell Hoban
I refuse to be burdened by vague worries. If something wants to worry me, it will have to make itself clear. ~ Robert Brault
When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come. ~ Joseph Joubert
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due. ~ William Ralph Inge
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 on 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. ~ Jack Kerouac
It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition. ~ Northrop Frye
If you don’t want a man unhappy politically, don’t give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war. If the government is inefficient, top-heavy, and tax-mad, better it be all those than that people worry over it. Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of ‘facts’ they feel stuffed, but absolutely ‘brilliant’ with information. Then they’ll feel they’re thinking, they’ll get a sense of motion without moving. And they’ll be happy, because facts of that sort don’t change. ~ Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth’s creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives. ~ Lewis Thomas
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behavior control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. ~ Lewis Thomas
Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles. ~ Paul Fussell
Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. ~ Robert Fulghum
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. ~ Albert Einstein
Forget the past – the future will give you plenty to worry about. ~ George Allen, Sr.
Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia. ~ Charles M. Schulz
Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you. ~ Joey Adams
I don’t need to worry about identity theft because no one wants to be me. ~ Jay London
Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats. ~ Howard Aiken
I don’t worry about terrorism. I was married for two years. ~ Sam Kinison
It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married. ~ Robert Frost
Pray, and let God worry. ~ Martin Luther
There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature. ~ Henry David Thoreau
I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else. ~ Lily Tomlin
I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, ‘There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.’ But I’m not going to worry about them. I’m dreaming the hardest. ~ Marilyn Monroe
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation. ~ Graham Greene
It ain’t no use putting up your umbrella till it rains. ~ Alice Caldwell Rice
I don’t worry about stress. I create it. ~ James Mattis
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