1,537 Quotes About Worry

There are hundred reasons to worry but the only way to keep out of this 'net' of worry is to pray.

Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.

There are problems and there are problems. One big problem and a great paradox in the arena of life is the problem of where or how a person is now and where or how he wants to be tomorrow. Had it not been this problem, we would have been relaxing all day long

Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.

..when someone says "please pray for me," they are not just saying "let's have lunch sometime." They are issuing an invitation into the depths of their lives and their humanity- and often with some urgency. And worry is not a substitute for prayer. Worry is a starting place, but not a staying place. Worry invites me into prayer. As a staying place, worry can be self-indulgent, paralyzing, draining, and controlling. When I take worry into prayer, it doesn't disappear, but it becomes smaller.

Worrying about outcomes over which I have no control is punishing myself before the universe has decided whether I ought to be punished.

If I was a worrier I'd worry, but not being a worrier I'm just sort of confused and pissed off.

Sometimes I tend to worry too much and at the end of all the preoccupation nothing goes wrong.

It would be so nice to be wanted by someone with the courage to get his hat or stay as he damn pleased, and who gave her credit for the same. Someone who didn't worry about her.