#worrying

Free yourself from fruitlessly worrying about things you can’t control and put your energy towards the things you can. Seize the day and take effective action on things you can change. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#change #control #let-go #worrying #change

I wished there was some kind of switch on my brain. That I could turn it off in the same way that I could turn off the television. Just click it off and immediately empty my mind of all these images and worrying thoughts. And simply leave a blank screen. Or if I could just remove my head and put it on the bedside table and forget about it until morning. And then attach it again when I needed it. ↗

— Marian Keyes

#worrying #family

Stop crying to the ocean, stop crying over me. Stop worrying over nothing, stop worrying over me. So it's been so long since you said, well I know what I want and what I want's right here with you. ↗

— Tegan Quin

#sainthood #sara-quin #tegan-and-sara #tegan-quin #the-ocean

I've never really had time for romantic relationships. I have much more important things to worry about, like saving the world from zombies. ↗

— J. Cornell Michel

#apocalyptic #importance #important #relationship #relationships

It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls. ↗

— Bruce Barton

#done #him #how #life #make

Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#human #most #natural #spontaneous #worrying

Hey, uh, you know. Um. If you’re alive, uh, call me." I looked at the screen and said, "It's Jane." I closed the phone, thinking, Lame. I am so lame. ↗

— Faith Hunter

#humor #worrying #death

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized. ↗

— Wayne Dyer

#activity #because #control #immobilized #keeps

We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children. ↗

— Joycelyn Elders

#affair #children #fetus #get #love

I go to bed at night worrying that I didn't do enough that day to make sure I protect the American people. ↗

— John O. Brennan

#american people #bed #day #enough #go