True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

—Seneca

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

 —William James

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

 —Robert Frost

As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.

 —Julius Caesar

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

 —John Lubbock

We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth’s creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.

 —Lewis Thomas

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

—M. Scott Peck

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.

 —Winston Churchill

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

—Henry Ward Beecher

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

 —W.R. Inge

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

 —Charlotte Bronte

Overcoming fear and worry can be accomplished by living a day at a time or even a moment at a time. Your worries will be cut down to nothing.

—Robert Anthony