Do not anticipate¹ trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)

That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another....

Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown

What worries you masters you.

Haddon W. Robinson

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish² Proverb

Worrying helps you some—it seems as if you were doing something when you're worrying.

L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.

Mary Hemingway

It is generally true that, the more preparations one has for an event, the more inconveniently³ fast the event will occur.

Monica Fairview, Darcy Cousins, 2010

If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying?

Shantideva

We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.

Susan Jeffers