Worries Quotes

“I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.”
― Mark Twain

“APPLY WITHIN

You once told me
You wanted to find
Yourself in the world -
And I told you to
First apply within,
To discover the world
within you.

You once told me
You wanted to save
The world from all its wars -
And I told you to
First save yourself
From the world,
And all the wars
You put yourself
Through.


APPLY WITHIN by Suzy Kassem”
― Suzy Kassem

“Whatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not.”
― Ana Monnar

“Take a shower. Wash away every trace of yesterday. Of smells. Of weary skin. Get dressed. Make coffee, windows open, the sun shining through. Hold the cup with two hands and notice that you feel the feeling of warmth. 
 You still feel warmth.
Now sit down and get to work. Keep your mind sharp, head on, eyes on the page and if small thoughts of worries fight their ways into your consciousness: threw them off like fires in the night and keep your eyes on the track. Nothing but the task in front of you. 
Get off your chair in the middle of the day. Put on your shoes and take a long walk on open streets around people. Notice how they’re all walking, in a hurry, or slowly. Smiling, laughing, or eyes straight forward, hurried to get to wherever they’re going. And notice how you’re just one of them. Not more, not less. Find comfort in the way you’re just one in the crowd. Your worries: no more, no less.

Go back home. Take the long way just to not pass the liquor store. Don’t buy the cigarettes. Go straight home. Take off your shoes. Wash your hands. Your face. Notice the silence. Notice your heart. It’s still beating. Still fighting. Now get back to work.
Work with your mind sharp and eyes focused and if any thoughts of worries or hate or sadness creep their ways around, shake them off like a runner in the night for you own your mind, and you need to tame it. Focus. Keep it sharp on track, nothing but the task in front of you.
Work until your eyes are tired and head is heavy, and keep working even after that.

Then take a shower, wash off the day. Drink a glass of water. Make the room dark. Lie down and close your eyes.
Notice the silence. Notice your heart. Still beating. Still fighting. You made it, after all. You made it, another day. And you can make it one more. 
You’re doing just fine.
You’re doing fine.

I’m doing just fine.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, You're Doing Just Fine

“What about the rest of your life?"
She shrugged. "What about it?"
"Aren't you worried about, like, forever?"
"Forever is composed of nows," she says.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“And the spiders?"
"Still there."
"But?"
"But I can have spiders in my head as long as I don't let them consume me.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“Some details in life may look insignificant but appear to be vital leitmotifs in a person's life. They may have the value of "Rosebuds" of Citizen Kane or "Madeleine cookies" of Marcel Proust or "Strawberry fields" of the Beatles. People regularly walk down the memory lane of their early youth. The paper boats of their childhood are recurrently floating on the waves of their mind and bring back the mood and the spirit of the early days. They enable us to retreat from the trivial, daily worries and can generate delightful bliss and true joy in a sometimes frantic and chaotic life. ("Paper boats forever" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“What's important is that I know how much you worry about shit. And what's also important is that I know a big part of your worry is that, no matter what group of friends you're in, no matter how long you've known them, you always assume you're the least-wanted person there. The one everyone else could do without.”
― Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here

“Later, I would come to think of those first days as the time when we learned as a species that we had worried over the wrong things: the hole in the ozone layer, the melting of the ice caps, West Nile and swine flu and killer bees. But I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different—unimagined, unprepared for, unknown.”
― Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles

“The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true.”
― Christopher Paolini, Inheritance

“All worries are less with wine.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“You’re worried about what-ifs. Well, what if you stopped worrying?”
― Shannon Celebi, Driving Off Bridges

“If you were determined to get enjoyment out of every moment, you would learn to do whatever it took. What it takes is not listening to negative thoughts, yours or anyone else's. Disregarding negative thoughts isn't hiding our head in the sand, but simply not allowing the negative to clutter and influence over our experience of the present moment. The moment is never improved or helped by negativity, although we are programmed to think our negative thoughts, worries, and fears serve a useful function. When you really examine this idea, however, you see that negativity doesn't serve. Focusing on negativity and fears doesn't make anyone a better person, nor does doing that help us function better in the world. In fact, the truth is quite the opposite.”
― Gina Lake, What About Now?: Reminders for Being in the Moment

“It's about the quality of the worry," I said. "I have happier worries now than I used to.”
― David Gilmour, The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son

“That porch is a happy-looking place, and my father - burdened, stoop-shouldered, cadaverously thin - doesn't seem to belong on it.”
― Margaret Peterson Haddix, Double Identity

“FOR VERY MINUTE YOU SPEND WORRYING ABOUT THINGS IN LIFE,
YOU LOSE A PRECIOUS MINUTE OF YOUR LIFE.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“FOR EVERY MINUTE YOU SPEND WORRYING ABOUT THINGS IN LIFE,
YOU LOSE A PRECIOUS MINUTE OF YOUR LIFE.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“Sometimes I tend to worry too much and at the end of all the preoccupation nothing goes wrong.”
― Ana Monnar

“Good God, but life could be less than easy, not that he was unaware that it could certainly be a lot worse, but to go about in such a state, pulse high, face red, worried sick that someone would notice how nervous one was, was certainly less than ideal, and he felt sure that his body was secreting all kinds of harmful chemicals and that the more he worried about the harmful chemicals the faster they were pouring out of wherever it was they came from.”
― George Saunders, Pastoralia

“Empty complaints are the sources of everyday failure, but not the problem being complained about. Problems are solvable; but not with complaints. A complainer is just an explainer of problems!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“It strikes her again, how many of a child’s fears are just rational responses to the facts of everyday experience.”
― Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers

“Perpetual worry will get you to one place ahead of time - the cemetery.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“We can never truly see into the hearts of others. When people get lost in their own worries, they can be blind to the feelings of those most important to them.”
― Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before the Coffee Gets Cold / Tales from the Café / Before Your Memory Fades

“It’s not wrong to have Expectations. The reason for worries is wrong expectations from right people in wrong situations or from wrong people in right situations.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Krishna Crux

“The present moment is too small. Keep the complaints of the past and worries of the future out of the present moment.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Any of them could have a disaster before the school year is over. You could have a disaster an hour from now. Bending over. Something could hit you. People carry guns in glove compartments and lunch boxes. Cars spin out of control in minor drizzle. The more you know, really, the more you have to worry and fret about. It's a miracle anyone can sleep at all.”
― Naomi Shihab Nye, There Is No Long Distance Now

“Whenever I had confessed my worries, she told me that if you can keep brushing against death, little by little, fear will become a memory and you'll be able to face anything.”
― Laura van den Berg, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us: Stories

“They were preparing for a time of monsters, it seemed to me, but the monsters were only the neighbors, maybe even their friends.”
― Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles

“We even consider going into the church, and then change our minds because they've altered their sign to say:
DON'T LET WORRIES KILL YOU.
LET THE CHURCH HELP.
Frankly, that's a little too ambiguous for my liking.”
― Holly Smale, Picture Perfect

“Stop, o wanderer, abandon all worries, immerse yourself in this symphony where everything is in harmony.”
― David Passarelli, Mountain poems: Musings on stone, forest, and snow