Apps

Notable quotes

“What's the use of worrying? It never was worth while, So, pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag, And smile, smile, smile.”
— George Asaf (George H. Powell), 1st World War song: Pack up Your troubles in Your Old Kit-bag.
“If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying?”
— Shantideva, Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life
“He that taketh his own cares upon himself loads himself in vain with an uneasy burden. I will cast all my cares on God; He hath bidden me; they cannot burden Him.”
— Bishop Hall, p. 43.
“He who climbs above the cares of this world, and turns his face to his God, has found the sunny side of life. The world's side of the hill is chill and freezing to a spiritual mind; but the Lord's presence gives a warmth of joy which turns winter into summer.”
— Charles Spurgeon, p. 43.
“Why art thou troubled and anxious about many things? One thing is needful — to love Him and to sit attentively at His feet.”
— François Fénelon, p. 43.
“Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.”
— Variously attributed to Dean Inge and John Garland Pollard in the 1930s, this aphorism was already in general circulation decades earlier, e.g., it features in an advertisement in The Grape Belt, 2 October 1906, p. 5.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.