“Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.”
“She glared at him, and in her eyes he could see her storm, more furious and sorrowful and terrified than he had ever seen her before. It took all of his will to turn away and walk toward the seething city.”
Source: The Aria of Steel Trilogy
“Life seldom chooses the less worrisome route.”
Source: An Hour Unspent
“If we let worry control us, we shall never accomplish anything.”
Source: Foremost
“It is a simple answer, really. It comes to Essa in the memory of XX’s old name. A fist is tight and tense, then it opens, relaxes, turns and flies up. It could mean Escape-from-bondage, but it could also mean: let it go.
“Let it go. Let the past transform as it will, let the future unfold. XX was right in a way about her expectations: she has taken to worrying at the world, trying to get it to make sense. It is time to let go, whatever that may mean: daughter, lover, friend, past and future.
“Simply let it all go. It will fly up.”
Source: Black Wine
“OK, just chill Annie. Remember how the old Asian saying goes: "If a problem has a solution, you have nothing to worry about. And if a problem doesn't have a solution, you have nothing to worry about." But I'm a control-obsessed Westerner, so of course, all I can do is worry.”
Source: Cinderella on the Couch
“Still and all, when I smell love, I almost always smell worry. Seems like they're tangled together so tightly they'll never unravel.”
Source: The One and Only Bob
“I thought my mom had gone totally nuts, but she hadn’t. She had finally, through her faith, found a way to voice herself and stand up to me; to share how she felt about what was going on; to voice her concern, fear, and worry; to state that her son had been taken from her and that she wanted him back, and to say she was not going to stand aside and let him be besieged any longer.”
Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
“Worry is a cycle of inefficient thought whirling around a center of fear.”
“I Thought,
Thought all the time.
Thought about nothing,
But Thought!”
Source: On My Way To Infinity: A Seeker's Poetic Pilgrimage