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Why should we... constantly worry ourselves... as to what should be done and how, and what should not be done and how not? We know that the train carries all loads, so after getting on it why should we carry our small luggage on our head to our discomfort, instead of putting it down in the train and feeling at ease?

From the moment of my birth, the angels of anxiety, worry, and death stood at my side, followed me out when I played, followed me in the sun of springtime and in the glories of summer. They stood at my side in the evening when I closed my eyes, and intimidated me with death, hell, and eternal damnation.

Tend to your vital heart, and all that you worry about will be solved.

Worrying makes you cross the bridge before you come to it.

Worry, about the 'thousand and one' details entailed. My one-track mind has to be relieved of these worries completely or I cannot get started working on my paintings, or even get to sleep at night.

I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.

Chase used to say, 'When you're looking at your canvas and worrying about it, try to think of your canvas as the reality and the model as the painted thing.'

I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul.

What an artist worries about as he plans his pictures, makes his sketches, or wonders whether he has completed his canvas, is something much more difficult to put into words. Perhaps he would say he worries about whether he has got it 'right'.

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.

I've never thought sitting around worrying helps anything, except to help shorten your life.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry.

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

Worry is the product of feverish imagination working under the stimulus of desires... It is a necessary resultant of attachment to the past or to the anticipated future, and it always persists in some form or other until the mind is completely detached from everything.

The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.

I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days during their early adult life. Darkness would make them more appreciative of sight; silence would teach them the joys of sound.

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.

Don't blame yourself, or worry. Neither does a bit of good.

...if the fear of falling into error is the source of a mistrust in Science, which in the absence of any such misgivings gets on with the work itself and actually does know, it is difficult to see why, conversely, a mistrust should not be placed in this mistrust, and why we should not be concerned that this fear of erring is itself the very error.

If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.