A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.

Only the parts of the future that we are guaranteed to reach are worth worrying over.

The probability of something not happening does not decrease as we increase the number of times we worry about the possibility of it happening.

Some people worry about money way more often than most people who have or earn way less money than them.

We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.

Wealth seldom fails to breed the fear of poverty.

Worrying requires way more energy than hoping, which—unlike worrying—is energizing.

We spend a huge chunk of our lives worrying about whether or not we will eventually get the person and/or the things we need or want. Once we get them, we spend the rest of our lives worrying about whether or not we will eventually lose them.

It is one of the fruits of wisdom not to sweat even the big stuff.