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“...there's nothing reasonable about being a parent. The only thing everyone said when he was about to become a father was: "Don't worry." What a meaningless thing to say. There's an immensity of love that bursts from your chest the first time you hear your child cry, every emotion you've ever felt is amplified to the point of absurdity, children open floodgates inside us, upward as well as down. You've never felt so happy, and never felt so scared. Don't say "don't worry" to someone in that position. You can't love someone like this without worrying about everything, forever.”
― Frederik Backman, The Winners

“The night inches on. I could make a career out of worrying, if only anyone would pay me. What do I worry about during these long nights? Money. Death. Failure. The familiar horsemen of those quiet apocalypses that happen only when the sun‘s gone down. In the middle of the night, I can worry my house onto the edge of a cliff, forever about to topple onto the rocks below. I am only ever a missed wage packet away from total annihilation. I carry too much debt. I own nothing. I own too much...”
― Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

“Her head had taken to constantly pounding, and despite the massive amount of work to be done, all she felt like doing was curling up on her little mat by the fire and falling asleep for enough hours to bring
her back to her normal, cheerful, rested self. But every time her head hit the pillow, no sleep came for the worrying. No matter how hard she tried, she always tossed and turned, nervous, anxious, and overwhelmed at the possibilities of the dangers that presented themselves at every corner.”
― Victoria Lynn, Once I Knew

“Perhaps emotion, when it is tightly disciplined, turns into worry.”
― Helen MacInnes, Pray for a Brave Heart

“Maybe, in order to stop worrying about Mom, I let my imagination pull me too far into this game we created.”
― Lillian Keith, Should We Tell Her?

“Heavenly Blue worried all the time. He worried about the bills and the roof that needed repairing and the strange men who always watched the house and what the neighbors might do next and about Hollyhock's unhappiness. He worried most of all that he would go mad. His worrying got the bills paid and the roof fixed and drove the men away and calmed the neighbors down and helped Hollyhock be happier. And finally his worrying drove him mad. It was the madness of looking inward and being afraid. There had never been enough love and warmth around him and he thought he had gradually dried up inside. He wanted out but he did not know where out was. Lilac and Pinetree and Moonbeam and Loose Tomato and Hollyhock gathered. They held Heavenly Blue in their arms for days, they let him cry and stare and slobber and scream and be silent. They paid the bills and looked after the roof and watched the street for strange men and talked to the neighbors and Hollyhock kept himself happy. Their house filled up with comfort and routine and gladness until Heavenly Blue could no longer resist and became response-able again.”
― Larry Mitchell

“To those who sometimes have to break their own necks to have a shoulder to cry on...better is coming.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

“My daughter sometimes says that I am so worried about being a nuisance that my worry itself becomes troublesome.”
― Margareta Magnusson, The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning

“Worry is a thief; steals your peace and when your peace goes away, your life goes away too! You can't get your life back until you get rid of the worries - the thief inside you!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Fear—real, honest-to-God debilitating fear—is an affliction.”
― Magie Dominic, Street Angel

“As I sit on the folding metal chair I begin to fear getting up. As the finale approaches, I experience outright panic. What if my feet no longer move? What if my muscles lock? What if this neuritis or neuropathy or neurological inflammation has evolved into a condition more malign? I once in my late twenties had an exclusionary diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, believe later by the neurologist who made the diagnosis to be in remission, but what if it is no longer in remission? What if it never was? What if it has returned? What if I stand up from this folding chair in this rehearsal room on West Forty-second Street and collapse, fall to the floor, the folding metal chair collapsing with me?
Or what if---
(Another series of dire possibilities occurs to me, this series even more alarming than the last---)
What if the damage extends beyond the physical?
What if the problem is now cognitive?
What if the absence of style that I welcomed at one point---the directness that I encouraged, even cultivated---what if this absence of style has now taken on a pernicious life of its own?
What if my new inability to summon the right word, the apt thought, the connection that enables the words to make sense, the rhythm, the music itself---
What if this new inability is systemic?
What if I can never again locate the words that work?”
― Joan Didion

“When friendship is fully in place in marriage, you would have very little to worry about.”
― John Arthur

“Love is worry and joy together.”
― Nora Roberts, The Becoming

“None of them had been worried about him, and the Sullivans were a family who believed that worry could prevent catastrophe. Teddy thought this belief was somehow tied into their Catholicism and guilt, though he wasn't exactly sure how. It had been drilled into him - if you worried about a car crash, you would arrive safely. If you were extra careful about locking your doors, you would never be robbed. Always call when you get home. Update everyone on your whereabouts. The worrying would keep you safe.”
― Jennifer Close, Marrying the Ketchups

“TODAY

USE MY
WARRIOR SPIRIT NOT

MY WORRIER SPIRIT”
― Allan Rufus - Daily Life Adjustments

“The cure for anxiety and fear, is to stop worrying and start having Faith.”
― Jeanette Coron

“Fear is nothing but an opportunity to practice Faith.”
― Jeanette Coron

“I am not worried now and I never have nor will. You must learn to tell worry from thought and thought from prayer. Sometimes a light will go from your life and your life becomes a prayer til you are strong enough to stand under the weight of your own thought again.”
― Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley

“There’s one thing about being a worrier, you’re prepared to go to mind-torturing lengths to worry today today on the off-chance it will avoid an even worse worry tomorrow. The alternative would be not to fret today as the catastrophe is unlikely to happen tomorrow.”
― Derek J. Taylor, A Horse in the Bathroom: How An Old Stable Became Our Dream Village Home

“What have they done?" Papa's voice was as tentative as a toe checking a frozen river before attempting to cross.”
― Laura Hatosy

“When you can solve a problem, there is no point in worrying about it. And when you can’t solve a problem, there’s again no point in worrying about it. Instead of pointlessly worrying about it, apply yourself to solving the problem on hand. The bottom line: Be non-worrying. That’s the secret to being happy despite the circumstances.”
― AVIS Viswanathan

“You do not need to worry about me, as the only thing I am armed with is a word processor!”
― Steven Magee

“Happiness is the ability to be non-worrying, non-frustrated and non-suffering despite the circumstances. This is an art. And you learn this art by learning to train your mind.”
― AVIS Viswanathan

“She has the feeling already that she will remember this night for a long time. But she feels this way often, a certain simmering. It is a habit of thinking she shares with her father--every ordinary moment holds a potential calamity, and you cannot know when one will rise.”
― Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers

“Mei is watching her face the way she watches flight attendants during turbulence: if they keep pouring the coffee, she knows things are fine--some kinds of tumult frighten only the unaccustomed or the untrained.”
― Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers

“I have confidence in the driver, and in life. When you have confidence you don't worry so much. Trust fights fear.”
― Emanuela Cooper, Made in Nirvana: Love, friendship, experiments with drugs, but above all India and Buddhism

“If you worry, you will worn out.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Sometimes, Carter told her, you got to let a garden tend itself.”
― Justin Cronin, The City of Mirrors

“When you train your mind to be non-worrying, non-frustrated and non-suffering, you can actually be Happy ALL Year!”
― AVIS Viswanathan

“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