If you have fear of some pain or suffering, you should examine whether there is anything you can do about it. If you can, there is no need to worry about it; if you cannot do anything, then there is also no need to worry.
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Dalai Lama Xiv
If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were?
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Jodi Picoult
Worry is a misuse of the imagination.
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Dan Zadra
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened.
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Mark Twain
More Quotes By Robin McKinley
I don't put up with being messed around, and I don't suffer fools gladly. The short version of that is that I'm a bitch. Trust me, I can provide character references.
The train is roaring toward you and the villain is twirling his moustache and you're fussing that he's tied you to the tracks with the wrong kind of rope.
Oh, why does compassion weaken us?' It doesn't, really .. Somewhere where it all balances out - don't the philosophers have a name for it, the perfect place, the place where the answers live? - if we could go there, you could see it doesn't....
But I'm going to try to tell the truth. Except for the parts I'm leavÂing out, because there's still stuff I'm just not going to tell you. Get used to it.
So, what do you do when you know you have two days to live? Eat an entire Bitter Chocolate Death cake all by myself. Reread my favorite novel. Buy eight dozen roses from the best florist in town--the super expensive ones, the ones that smell...
