This was a great year for preventive worrying. Seldom in recent history have so many people worried about so many things that didn't happen in the end.
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 James Reston
One of the advantages of defeat in life - maybe the main advantage - is that it provides an excuse for change. Defeat... invariably leads to new adventures.
Nations like individuals have to limit their objectives or take the consequences.
The grossest thing in our gross national product today is our language. It is suffering from inflation.
This was a great year for preventive worrying. Seldom in recent history have so many people worried about so many things that didn't happen in the end.
If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology.
