Worry was my mother's mechanic, her mechanism for engaging with the machinery of living. Worry was an anchor for her, a hook, something to clutch on to in the world. Worry was a box to live inside of, worry a mechanism for evading the present, for re-creating the past, for dealing with the future. Charles Yu
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  3. No amount of regretting can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future. - Roy T. Bennett
  4. Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create. - Roy T. Bennett
  5. Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy. - Roy T. Bennett
More Quotes By Charles Yu
  1. You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.
  2. ..unfortunately, it's true: time does heal. It will do so whether you like it or not, and there's nothing anyone can do about it. If you're not careful, time will take away everything that ever hurt you, everything you have ever lost, and replace it...
  3. I was headed for an entire life spent alone, pitying myself for not being more, ignoring all those people who actually ask me to be more, because they see it in me.
  4. I hate everything about her except for the fact that I love everything about her.
  5. I hope you read this, whoever you are, and imagine that there is a hypothetical person out there who needs your love, has been waiting silently, patiently for it all his life, is flawed and downright ugly at times and yet would have just eaten...
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