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| If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I’d have fewer imaginary ones. ~ Don Herold |
| Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. ~ Mark Twain |
| Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday. ~ Author Unknown |
| Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which will never happen. ~ James Russel Lowell |
| If things go wrong, don’t go with them. ~ Roger Babson |
| Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. ~ Leo Buscaglia |
| Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. ~ Benjamin Franklin |
| If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep. ~ Dale Carnegie |
| I’ve developed a new philosophy… I only dread one day at a time. ~ Charlie Brown (Charles Schulz) |
| Troubles are a lot like people – they grow bigger if you nurse them. ~ Author Unknown |
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| If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today. ~ E. Joseph Cossman |
| Nerves and butterflies are fine – they’re a physical sign that you’re mentally ready and eager. You have to get the butterflies to fly in formation, that’s the trick. ~ Steve Bull |
| Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere. ~ Glenn Turner |
| People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them. ~ George Bernard Shaw, "Family Affection," |
| Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination. ~ Christian Nevell Bovee |
| Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face. ~ Nelson DeMille |
| For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe. ~ Author Unknown |
| We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic. ~ Cullen Hightower |
| If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you’ll die a lot of times. ~ Dean Smith |
| It only seems as if you are doing something when you’re worrying. ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| A hundredload of worry will not pay an ounce of debt. ~ George Herbert |
| As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey. ~ Thomas A. Edison |
| Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ~ Swedish Proverb |
| Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three – all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have. ~ Edward Everett Hale |
| That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent. ~ Chinese Proverb |
| We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday’s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it. ~ John Newton |
| Worry bankrupts the spirit. ~ Berri Clove |
| Worry ducks when purpose flies overhead. ~ C. Astrid Weber |
| It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge a elephant, but we can’t dodge a fly. ~ Josh Billings |
| Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die. ~ Attributed to Douglas MacArthur |