Happy the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.           —Ovid

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

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.          —Epictetus

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.  —Swedish proverb

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

                                                                                           —John Lubbock

Don’t take tomorrow to bed with you.      —Norman Vincent Peale

How often are you worrying about the present moment? The present moment is usually all right. If you’re worrying, you’re either agonizing over the past which you should have forgotten long ago, or else you’re apprehensive over the future which hasn’t even come yet. We tend to skip over the present moment which is the only moment God gives any of us to live.           —Peace Pilgrim

If you can fix the thing that worries you, then fix it, otherwise don’t waste precious time or energy on it.   —Colleen Grant

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

While most of the things you’ve worried about have never happened, it’s a different story with the things you haven’t worried about. They are the ones that happen.                                   —Ruth Rendell

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength. —Corrie Ten Boom