Randy Pausch Quotes

It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.

Anxiety is simply living out the future before it gets here.

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

It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is, when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today, that the weight is more than a man can bear. Never load yourselves so, my friends. If you find yourselves so loaded, at least remember this: it is your own doing, not God's. He begs you to leave the future to Him, and mind the present.

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

You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.

WORRYING does not take away tomorrow's TROUBLES, it takes away today's PEACE.

Worries find you easily enough without inviting them.

I would say off the cuff that I am an anxious person. I worry about everything. I need to know everything. I tend to live in a state of anxiety with the feeling that life is some kind of great catastrophe.

So perhaps the greatest worry of all was that one day you would realize that all the worries of your life amounted to one thing: the desire to just stop worrying.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

Now is the age of anxiety.

In general, I think I'm quick to worry about disasters of all kinds.

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?

I am living for every day and trying to have less fear, less worry. But I have always worried about everything; it's in my nature. It's the thing that makes me suffer the most.

The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you.

I believe that your own thoughts can bring on positive or negative effects. So the people who feel sick all the time are the ones who are going to get sick, and the people who are constantly worried about what's going on around them... those are the ones in trouble.

All worry is fear-based.

Worry is useless mulling over of things we cannot change. Worry is not concern, which would motivate you to do everything possible in a situation.

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

Unfortunately, on one or both of my shoulders sits lots of anxiety and that is a controlling factor in my life.

Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.

Worrying is using your imagination to create something you don't want.

If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.