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"What's the use of worrying? It never was worth while, so pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag, and smile, smile, smile." (George Asaf)

"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength." (Corrie Ten Boom)

"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)

"Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey!" (Barbara Hoffman)

"Stop worrying -- nobody gets out of this world alive." (Clive James)

"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)

"Rule #1: Don't sweat the small stuff. Rule #2: It's all small stuff." (Michael Mantell)

"Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from over work, but many who died from doubt." (Charles Horace Mayo)

"We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays." (Persius)

"Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety." (Plato)

"Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself." (Pythagoras)

"Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained." (Arthur Somers Rache)

"It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains." (Alice Caldwell Rice)

"Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind." (Julius Rosenwald)

"Don't worry, be happy." (Source Unknown)

"Ninety percent of the things we tend to WORRY about we have no control over, so why worry about them?" (Source Unknown)

"The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much as it would take others a whole year to achieve." (Source Unknown)

"There are only two things to worry about, either you are healthy or you are sick. If you are healthy, then there is nothing to worry about. But if you are sick there are only two things to worry about, either you will get well or you will die. If you get well, then there is nothing to worry about. But if you die there are only two things to worry about, either you will go to heaven or to hell. If you go to heaven, then there is nothing to worry about. And if you to go hell, you'll be so darn busy shaking hands with your friends you won't have time to worry!" (Source Unknown)

"Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When idle concerns don't fill your thoughts, that's your best season." (Wu-Men)

"Worry is like a rocking chair -- it gives you something to do but it doesn't get you anywhere." (Dorothy Galyean)

"Worry gives a small thing a big shadow." (Swedish Proverb)

"Worry is the interest paid on a problem before it occurs." (Anne Hemphill)

"Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due." (William Inge)

"Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight." (Benjamin Franklin)

"Don't tell me that worry doesn't do any good. I know better. The things I worry about don't happen." (Unknown)

"While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen." (Ruth Rendell)

"There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality." (Seneca)

"There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it." (Alfred Hitchcock)

"There is no such thing as 'idle' worry. Worries do not idle; they grind." (Hugh Prather)

"Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever..." (Isak Dinesen)

"There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem." (Harold Stephens)

"As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can." (Julius Caesar)

"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)

"A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work." (John Lubbock)

"As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

"I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love and abundance. Then whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number." (Edith Armstrong)

"One cannot change the past, but one can ruin the present by worrying over the future." (Anonymous)

"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work." (Robert Frost)