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WORRY - WRONG

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WORRY

see: "ANXIETY"
see "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for other related links
see "UNHAPPINESS" for other related links

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What's the use of worrying?
It never was worth while,
So, pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag,
And smile, smile, smile.
--George Asaf [George H. Powell] (1880—1951)
British songwriter.
"Pack up your Troubles" [1915 song]
(Music by Felix Powell.)

You don't get to choose how you're going to die.
Or when. You can only decide how you're going
to live. Now.
--Joan Baez (1941— )
American folk singer.

Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will
be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for
the day.
--Bible
"Matthew" 6:34

Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
--Christian Nestell Bovee (1820—1904)
American writer.

Learn to recognize the inconsequential,
then ignore it.
--H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940— )
American author.
_Life's Little Instruction Book_ [1991], Maxim #178

There are two days in the week about which and upon
which I never worry. Two carefree days, kept sacredly
free from fear and apprehension. One of those days
is Yesterday. . . . And the other day I do not worry
about is Tomorrow.
--Robert Jones Burdette (1844—1914)
American humorist and lecturer.
"The Golden Day"

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
--G.K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton (1874—1936)
English essayist, novelist, and poet.
_Orthodoxy_, ch. 7 [1908]

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 (1874—1965)
British Conservative statesman and
Prime Minister [1940—1945, 1951—1955].

When I was a boy I heard a sermon in Paris prophesying
that as soon as a thousand years was completed the
advent of Antichrist would take place and not long after
the time of universal judgement would follow.
--Abbot Cibbo of Fleury [998],
in J.P. Migne (ed.) _Patralogia Latina_ [1844-1864] Vol.139
{of the end of the world in the year 1000.}

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this
machine called Man! Oh the little that unhinges
it: poor creatures that we are!
--Charles Dickens (1812—1870)
English novelist.
_The Chimes_ "Third Quarter"

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than
before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way
and that so many things that one goes around worrying
about are of no importance whatsoever.
--Isak Dinesen (pseudonym of Karen Blixen) (1885—1962)
Danish writer.

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we
least expected generally happens.
--Benjamin Disraeli (1804—1881)
British Tory statesman, novelist, and
Prime Minister [1868, 1874—1880].
_Henrietta Temple_ [1837]

But Jesus, when you don't have any money, the
problem is food. When you have money, it's sex.
When you have both, it's health, you worry about
getting ruptured or something. If everything is
simply jake then you're frightened of death.
--J. P. Donleavy (1926— )
American dramatist and novelist.
"O'Keefe," in _The Ginger Man_, Ch. 5 [1955]

Of all the tyrannies on human kind,
The worst is that which persecutes the mind.
--John Dryden (1631—1700)
English poet, critic, and dramatist.
_The Hind and the Panther_
[1687], Part I, l. 239

What torments of grief you endured,
from evils that never arrived.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.

There is only one way to happiness and that
is to cease worrying about things which are
beyond the power of our will.
--Epictetus (55—135)
Greek philosopher.

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[...] Grab your coat, and get your hat,
Leave your worry on the doorstep.
Just direct your feet
To the sunny side of the street.
Can't you hear a pitter pat?
And that happy tune is your step.
Life can be so sweet,
On the sunny side of the street.
I used to walk in the shade
With those blues on parade,
But I'm not afraid,
This rover crossed over.
If l never have a cent,
I'll be rich as Rockefeller.
Gold dust at my feet,
On the sunny side of the street.

--Dorothy Fields (1905—1974)
American lyricist.
"On The Sunny Side of the Street" [1930 song]
in the show _Lew Leslie's International Review_.
(Music by Jimmy McHugh.)

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If you spend your whole life waiting for the
storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
--Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65—8 BC)
Roman poet.

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as
soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
--Henrik Ibsen (1828—1906)
Norwegian playwright.
_A Doll's House_, act I [1879]

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.
--William Ralph Inge (1860—1954)
English writer and Dean of St. Paul's [1911—1934].
"Observer" [14 February 1932]

There are indeed (who might say Nay) gloomy & hypochondriac
minds, inhabitants of diseased bodies, disgusted with the present,
& despairing of the future; always counting that the worst will
happen, because it may happen. To these I say, How much pain
have cost us the evils which have never happened!
--Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826)
American statesman and president [1801—1809].
Letter to John Adams [8 April 1816].

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for
tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let
the day's own trouble be sufficient for
the day.
--Jesus (A.D. 1st cent)
"Mathew" 6.34

Things equal out pretty well. Our dreams seldom
come true, but then neither do our nightmares.
--Charles Kennedy

Do not let trifles disturb your tranquillity of mind. The little
pinpricks of daily life when dwelt upon and magnified, may
do great damage, but if ignored or dismissed from thought,
will disappear from inanition. Most men have worried about
things which never happened, and more men have been
killed by worry than by hard work. Life is so great in its
opportunities and possibilities, that you should rise confidently
above the inevitable trifles incident to daily contact with the
world. Life is too precious to be sacrificed for the
nonessential and transient . . . Ignore the inconsequential.
--Grenville Kleiser (1868—1953)
American writer of humor and inspiration.

Nothing puzzles me more than time and space;
and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never
think about them.
--Charles Lamb (1775—1834)
English essayist.
Letter to Thomas Manning [2 January 1810].

We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds
the future; we expect some new disaster with
each newspaper we read.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809—1865)
American Republican statesman, President [1861—1865].

And in the meantime — in the meantime life is not all seriousness
and a somber understanding of history, and the work of making life
better. Life is beautiful. Life is the best horse on the best ranch
and the best ride to see the best sunset. Laugh, have a good time,
enjoy it — it's beautiful.
--Peggy Noonan (1950— )
Speechwriter for U.S. presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.
"The Ben Elliott Story"

Happy is the man who has broken the
chains which hurt the mind, and has
given up worrying once and for all.
--Ovid [Publius Ovidius Naso] (43 B.C.—18 A.D.)
Roman poet.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.
--Norman Vincent Peale (1898—1993)
American preacher and author.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy
of great anxiety.
--Plato (427?—347 B.C.)
Greek philosopher.

And there's no cure like travel
To help you unravel
The worries of living today.
When the poor brain is cracking
There's nothing like packing
A suitcase and sailing away.
--Cole Porter (1892—1964)
American songwriter.
"There's No Cure Like Travel" from _Anything Goes_ [1934]

I highly recommend worrying. It is
much more effective than dieting.
--William Powell (1892—1984)
American actor.

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a
genius I feel quite sure that joy and happiness is
no longer a possibility. Yet, when I talk with my
gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite; joy and
happiness is just around the corner.
--Bertrand Russell (1872—1970)
British philosopher, mathematician, and Nobel laureate.

The state of that man's mind who feels too intense
an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC—65 A.D.)
Roman philosopher and poet.
Quoted in Louis Klopsch
_Many Thoughts of Many Minds_ p. 103 [1896].

The biggest big business in America is not steel,
automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture,
refinement and distribution of anxiety.
--Eric Sevareid (1912—1992)
American news commentator.

Things past redress are now with me past care.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist,
_Richard II_ [1595]

Why destroy present happiness by a distant misery, which
may never come at all, or you may never live to see it? For
every substantial grief has twenty shadows, and most of
them shadows of your own making.
--Sydney Smith (1771—1845)
English clergyman and essayist,
in 1802 co-founded "The Edinburgh Review."
Quoted in _The Irish Quarterly Review_, Vol. V [1855].

It is said that our anxiety does not empty
tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties
today of its strength.
--Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834—1892)
English nonconformist preacher.

Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.
--Swedish Proverb

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 (1913—1993)
American physician, reseacher, administrator, and author.
_The Medusa and the Snail_ [1979]
"The Youngest and Brightest Things Around"

I am an old man and have known a great many
troubles, but most of them never happened.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.
--Attributed in _Reader's Digest_ [April 1934].

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You can't change the past, but you can
ruin a perfectly good present by worrying
about the future.
--anon.

There are only two things to worry about, either you
are healthy or you are sick. If you are healthy, then
there is nothing to worry about. But if you are sick
there are only two things to worry about, either you
will get well or you will die. If you get well, then
there is nothing to worry about. But if you die there
are only two things to worry about, either you will go
to heaven or to hell. If you go to heaven, then there
is nothing to worry about. And if you to go hell,
you'll be so darn busy shaking hands with your
friends you won't have time to worry!
--anon.

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trepidation (noun)
Fear or uneasiness about the future
or a future event



WOUNDED

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see: "HURT"


I'm a little wounded but I'm not slain;
I will lay me down for to bleed awhile,
Then I'll rise and fight with you again.
--John Dryden (1631—1700)
English poet, critic, and dramatist.



WRONG

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see: "RIGHT, RIGHT & WRONG"
see "HURTING (SOMEONE)" for other related links


Not to be deficient in this particular, the author has
provided himself with a moral; — the truth, namely,
that the wrong-doing of one generation lives into
the successive ones.
--Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804—1864)
American novelist and short-story writer.
_The House of the Seven Gables_, preface [1851]

All wrongs recoil upon the doer.
--Elbert Hubbard (1859—1915)
American editor, publisher, and author who
died in the sinking of the "Lusitania."
_A Thousand and One Epigrams_ [1911]

Doing wrong damages both the aggressor and victim.
--Pope John Paul II [Karol Wojtyla] (1920—2005)
The first non-Italian Pope since the 16th century.
United Nations address, New York City [5 October 1995].

Those who follow the wrong have generally first taken care
to be voluntarily ignorant of the right.
--John Stuart Mill (1806—1873)
English philosopher and social reformer.
"On Education," inaugural address on being installed as rector,
University of St. Andrews (Scotland) [1 February 1867].

I feel very strongly that if any people are oppressed anywhere,
the wrong inevitably reacts in the end on those who oppress
them; for it is an immutable law in the spiritual world that no
one can wrong others and yet in the end himself escape
unhurt.
--Theodore Roosevelt (1858—1919)
American Republican statesman and President [1901—1909].
[16 November 1905]

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fallible [FAL-uh-bul], adjective:
1. Liable to make a mistake.
2. Liable to be inaccurate or erroneous.


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