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Nothing comes so naturally to a human being as anxiety and worry.
Sep 26, 2025
I see that I am inwardly fashioned for faith and not for fear. Fear is not my native land; faith is. I am so made that worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is oil. I live better by faith and confidence than by fear and doubt and anxiety. In anxiety and worry my being is gasping for breath - these are not my native air. But in faith and confidence I breath freely - these are my native air.
I think one thing that does cause unhappiness is protracted anxiety and worry.
Memory is a barricade against forgetting; light is a bulwark against darkness; life is a flex against the stillness of the grave. Maybe that's what I'm trying to do here, clear a space in all the debris, through all the anxieties and worries, where I can just exist, easily and simply, entire, for as long as I have left.
Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry.
In the past, I would try to control so much, but that's just too stressful, and gives me too much anxiety and worry.
Lie is more worth living, more full of interest when you are likely to lose it. It shouldn't be, perhaps, but it is. When you're young and strong and healthy, and life stretches ahead of you, living isn't really important at all. It's young people who commit suicide easily, out of despair from love, sometimes from sheer anxiety and worry. But old people know how valuable life is and how interesting. - Jane Marple
We must see that God operates not only in us but in others as well. God also operates in our so-called enemies. But these are not our real enemies. Our real enemies are doubt, fear, anxiety and worry. When we do not cry to perfect others, but only try to perfect our own lives, then we will have joy.
A time of crisis is not just a time of anxiety and worry. It gives a chance, an opportunity, to choose well or to choose badly.
By the anxieties and worries of this life Satan tries to dull man's heart and make a dwelling for himself there.
Worry... is rust upon the blade.
It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man that he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade.
Worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is the oil.
Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff.
Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.
The experience of separateness arouses anxiety; it is, indeed, the source of all anxiety.
I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.
Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
My yoke is easy, and my burden light.
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
Fear ringed by doubt is my eternal moon.
Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.
Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
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
Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.
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