Some of your hurts you have cured, / And the sharpest you’ve even survived, / But what torments of grief you’ve endured, / From evils which never arrived.

                                                                            —Ralph Waldo Emerson

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

                                                                                              —Robert Frost

I think these 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 around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

                                                                                             —Isak Dinesen

Half the worry in the world is caused by people trying to make decisions before they have sufficient knowledge on which to base a decision.

                                                                                            —Dean Hawkes

How often are you worrying about the present moment? The present moment is usually all right. If you’re worrying, you’re either agonizing over the past which you should have forgotten long ago, or else you’re apprehensive over the future which hasn’t even come yet. We tend to skip over the present moment which is the only moment God gives any of us to live.

                                                                                            —Peace Pilgrim

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.

                                                                                                         —Seneca

We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth’s creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.

                                                                                           —Lewis Thomas

Worry a little 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

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due.

                                                                                             —William Inge

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize in the imagination, to raise phantoms of horror, or to beset life with supernumerary distresses.                                                                                       —Samuel Johnson

Don’t take tomorrow to bed with you.

                                                                            —Norman Vincent Peale

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.

                                                                                    —Winston Churchill

I’ve developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time.

                                                           —Charlie Brown (Charles Schulz)

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

                                                                                               —Mark Twain

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

                                                                                        —Elbert Hubbard