If you’re gonna fret, fret over something you can change. Then stop fretting and do something about it.

—Kimberly Willis Holt in My Louisiana Sky

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About Kimberly Willis Holt

Portrait of Kimberly Willis Holt

Kimberly Willis Holt is an American writer of children's books. She is best known for the novel When Zachary Beaver Came to Town, which won the 1999 U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature.

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You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.

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Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.

—Norman Vincent Peale

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You're stressing too much about what might be. Do something to take your mind off thinking about what might never happen.

—Simone Elkeles in Leaving Paradise

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She needed a break from worrying about what to say and how to act every second of the day.

—Cindi Madsen in All the Broken Pieces

Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.

—Francis Quarles

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