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
In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.
—Roger Allen
Happiness is always a byproduct. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy, you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
—Robertson Davies
When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.
—Albert Einstein
This is what the world honors: wealth, eminence, long life, a good name. This is what the world finds happiness in: a life of ease, rich food, fine clothes, beautiful sights, sweet sounds. People who can't get these things fret a great deal and are afraid, wear themselves out rushing around on business, spend night and day scheming and scrutinizing. Man lives his life in company with worry, and if he lives a long time, then he has spent that much time worrying. This is a callous way to treat the body.
—Chuang Tzu
The best thing against worry is to take care of others right away.
—Carl Hilty
People should worry about each other. Because worry is just love in its worst form. But it's still love.
—Simon Gray
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
—H. L. Mencken
You have to stop worrying about finding love again. It will come when it comes. Get comfortable with being alone. It will empower you.
—Jonathan Tropper in This is Where I Leave You
Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.
—Jose Marti
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
—Mark Twain
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
—Robert Frost
Life is all about change. If it were static, think about how boring it would be. You can't be afraid of it, and you can't worry that you'll mess things up.
—Ellen Hopkins in Impulse
There was only so much worrying you could do before you just had to accept what life throws at you and move on, because some things were going to be out of your control, and others can't be fixed or changed.
—Jenn Bennett in Summoning the Night
If you're in a bad situation, don't worry; it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry; it'll change.
—John A. Simone Sr.