Mary Schmich Quotes

Worrying about tomorrow is the best way to screw up today.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

I think there's an anxiety in life where we automatically tend to look to the next thing or we're complaining about the past. Worrying is not going to make it happen or not happen.

Quit worrying about your health. It will go away.

I tend to worry about now, now, and I'll worry about then, then.

Long for what is real. You will then have no time for worrying over what may never happen.

Has worrying about tomorrow every changed it?

When you try to worry about missteps and all that kind of stuff, that's not the healthiest way to be.

Ninety per-cent of what we worry about never happens, yet we worry and worry. What a horrible way to go through life! What a horrible thing to do to your colon!

Worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum.

Either worrying drives out prayer, or prayer drives out worrying.

And think what worrying does: has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it?

Ain't no sense worryin' about the things you got control over, 'cause if you got control over 'em, ain't no sense worryin'. And ain't no sense worryin' about the things you don't got control over, 'cause if you don't got control over 'em, ain't no sense worryin'.

Worrying about things beyond your control is a pretty good formula for illness.

I would like to stop worrying so much, because I worry all the time. And to learn how to be happier, just in general. I have to learn to take things not so seriously. And to stop biting my nails!... Recording music has helped take my mind off certain things. For me, my music is therapy.

Nothing to be gained by worrying between now and then.

I've learned one important lesson in my life, and I'm going to share it with you. Don't worry about bad things that haven't happened yet. It will save you a lot of anxiety.

I really make a point of never worrying, or trying not to worry, about the way I'm perceived. You'll go crazy otherwise.

In every life we have some trouble, but when you worry you make it double. Don't worry. Be happy.

Most of the things I worried about in life never happened.

Worrying about next, tomorrow cripples our ability to think, act and exercise faith in the present and the present only is ours.

Anticipating problems and figuring out how to solve them is actually the opposite of worrying: it's productive.

I'm planning to give up worrying. I want to, but I'm worried I won't be able to.

Better to be busy than to be busy worrying.

The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.