“People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn’t believe in that. Tomorrow wasn’t getting ready for them. It didn’t even know they were there.”— Cormac McCarthy, amazon.com
“Don’t waste the rest of your time here worrying about other people—unless it affects the common good. It will keep you from doing anything useful. You’ll be too preoccupied with what so-and-so is doing, and why, and what they’re saying, and what they’re thinking, and what they’re up to, and all the…”— Marcus Aurelius, amazon.com
“If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.”— Dale Carnegie, amazon.com
“I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.”— Daniel Keyes, amazon.com
“You ache with it all; and the more mysterious it is, the more you ache.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“You worry about the future A LOT. Most of the time, you're lost in your head, thinking about what your next move should be.”— Cassandra Rose, yourtango.com
“The things you worry about are not random, they show you what you’re here to work toward.”— Brianna Wiest, thoughtcatalog.com
“I am not being emotional for no reason. My anxiety likes to trick me into worrying about many problems, mainly the illogical ones. At times it will feel as if I am drowning in my emotions, but at other times it will feel as if I am sitting in a desert, void of any feelings at all.”— Stefanie Manzi, thoughtcatalog.com
“Anxiety is a constant state of worrying and panicking and being on the edge. It’s irrational fears. It’s thinking too much, it’s caring too much. Because the root of people with anxiety is caring.”— Kirsten Corley, thoughtcatalog.com
“I know that the future is scary at times. But there's just no escaping it.”— Ernest Cline, amazon.com
“I realized that life is so short: Why waste one minute of it worrying what other people think or say about you, or what score you got on some test? Why not believe what you want to believe, and do what you love?”— Meg Cabot, amazon.com
“Nothing waste more energy than worrying. The longer one carries a problem, the heavier it gets. Don't take things too seriously. Live a life of serenity, not a life of regrets.”— Douglas Pagels, amazon.com
“I told myself that imagining...would not affect the invisible reality going on inside of me, and that therefore all such thoughts were wasted moments in a life composed of a definitionally finite set of such moments.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.com
“No matter where you are in life, you’ll save a lot of time by not worrying too much about what other people think about you. The earlier in your life that you can learn that, the easier the rest of it will be.”— Sophia Amoruso, kindle.amazon.com
“No one worries about you like your mother, and when she is gone, the world seems unsafe, things that happen unwieldy. You cannot turn to her anymore, and it changes your life forever. There is no one on earth who knew you from the day you were born; who knew why you cried, or when you’d had enough f…”— Adriana Trigiani, amazon.com