Don't Worry About It

You can't wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time. ~Pat Schroeder

Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere. ~Glenn Turner

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them. ~George Bernard Shaw, "Family Affection," Parents and Children, 1914

Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face. ~Nelson DeMille

Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weights you down. ~Toni Morrison

That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent. ~Chinese Proverb

Some of your hurts you have cured,
And the sharpest you still have survived,
But what torments of grief you endured
From the evil which never arrived.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears. ~Montaigne, Essays, 1588