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Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday

Worry is like riding a roller coaster. It scares the wits out of you, and you always end up right where you started.

Only a lack of imagination saves me from immobilizing myself with imaginary fears.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.

Don't worry about the world ending today . . . It's already tomorrow in Australia.

Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith.
You can't change the past, but you can ruin a perfectly good present by worrying about the future.

Only a lack of imagination saves me from immobilizing myself with imaginary fears.

Dear God,
I turn to You in this time of anxiety. Alleviate my worry and sorrow with Your gentle love and grant me the grace and strength to accept this burden. I place my worries in Your hands. I place myself in Your care and humbly ask that You restore me to health again. Above all, grant me the grace to acknowledge Your will and know that You love me and are with me in this, my most difficult time. Amen

Worry is the darkroom in which negatives are developed.

Worry is a think stream of fear which, if encouraged, becomes a wide channel into which all other thoughts flow.

Ulcers aren't the result of what you eat. You get ulcers from what's eating you.

When we put our cares in God's hands, He puts His peace in our hearts.

There are two days in every week we should never worry about, two days that should be kept free from fear and apprehension. One is yesterday, with its mistakes and cares, its aches and pains, its faults and blunders.Yesterday has passed forever beyond our control.All the money in the world cannot bring back yesterday.We cannot undo a single act we performed, nor erase a single word we've said Yesterday is gone. The other day we should not worry about is tomorrow, with its impossible adversaries, its burden, its hopeful promise and unknown performance.Tomorrow is beyond our control.Tomorrow's sun will rise either in splendor or behind a mask of clouds ...but it will rise ... and until it does.We have no stake in tomorrow, for it is as yet unborn.This leaves only one day: TODAY! Anyone can fight the battles of just one day.It is only when we add the burdens of yesterday and tomorrow that we break down. It is not the experience of today that drives people mad.It is the remorse of bitterness for something that happened yesterday, and the dread of what tomorrow may bring. Make TODAY the best day it can be, and live one day at a time!

Worrying is like a rocking chair. It´s something to do, but it won´t get you anywhere.

Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.... Swedish Proverb

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time. Dean Acheson (1893-1971) "Sketches From Life."

O Lord! how happy should we be,
If we could leave our cares to Thee,
If we from self could rest;
And feel at heart that One above,
In perfect wisdom, perfect love,
Is working for the best.

For when we kneel and cast our care
Upon our God in humble prayer,
With strengthened souls we rise,
Sure that our Father Who is nigh,
To hear the ravens when they cry,
Will hear His children's cries.

O may these anxious hearts of ours
The lesson learn from birds and flowers,
And learn from self to cease,
Leave all things to our Father's will,
And in His mercy trusting still,
Find in each trial peace!
Joseph Anstice (1808-1836)

You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now. -- Joan Baez (1941-____)

What if we knew for certain that everything we're worried about today will work out fine? What if . . . we knew the future was going to be good, and we would have an abundance of resources and guidance to handle whatever comes our way? What if . . . we knew everything was okay, and we didn't have to worry about a thing? What would we do then? We'd be free to let go and enjoy life. -- Melody Beattie, The Language of Letting Go

Don't worry if you're a kleptomaniac, you can always take something for it. Robert Benchley

Cast your cares on the LORD and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous fall.-- Ps. 55:22

Have no fear of sudden disaster or of the ruin that overtakes the wicked, for the LORD will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being snared. --Proverbs 3:25-26

Be anxious for nothing- but in every thing by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Jesus Christ. -Phil. 4: 6-7

Much that worries us beforehand can afterwards, quite unexpectedly, have a happy and simple solution. Worries just don't matter. Things really are in a better hand than ours. -- DIETRICH BONHOEFFER

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.-- Corrie ten Boon

The bridges you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there. - Gene Brown

Think of the ills from which you are exempt, and it will aid you to bear patiently those which may never come.-- Richard Cecil

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.-- Winston Churchill

If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars. -- A. H. Clough, "Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth

The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow; and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, "Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more."--- William Cowper

I think these difficult times have helped me to realize how infinitely rich and beautiful life is. And that so many things one worries about are of no importance whatsoever. -- Isaak Dinesen

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us. Dorothy Dix (1870-1951)"Dorothy Dix, Her Book," Introduction.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.-Thomas A. Edison

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. -- Robert Frost

He that fears not the future may enjoy the present-- Thomas Fuller

Things happen more frequently in the future than they do in the past. - Booth Gardner (1936 &endash; )

I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came.- James A. Garfield (1831 &endash; 1881)

An undivided heart, which worships God alone and trusts him as it should, is raised above all anxiety for earthly wants. Geikie

Anxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered in anything short God and His will for us.--Billy Graham

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine. -- Horace

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.S---Elbert Hubbard

Anxiety is the interest paid on trouble before it is due.---William R. Inge

When you're at the end of the tether, remember that God is at the other end. - Seen outside a church, by David Jackman, in The Communicators Commentary, Ruth1.

It would be undoubtedly best, if we could see and hear everything as it is, that nothing may be too anxiously dreaded, or too ardently pursued. - Samuel Johnson: Idler #50

Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God. -- Thomas A. Kempis

Anxiety is not only a pain which we must ask God to assuage but also a weakness we must ask Him to pardon &emdash; for He's told us to take no care for the morrow. - C. S.Lewis, letter ,NOVEMBER 27, 1953

My grandmother was a Jewish juggler: she used to worry about six things at once. Richard Lewis

I have a better Caretaker than you and all the angels. He it is who lies in a manger ... but at the same time sits at the right hand of God, the almighty Father. Therefore be at rest. -- Martin Luther , letter to his wife Kate: 1546, eleven days before his death.

Pray, and let God worry. -Martin Luther [b. 11/10/1483], in the last letter written to his wife Katy, before his death on 2/18/1546]

Worriers spend a lot of time shoveling smoke.-- Claude McDonald

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. -- George MacDonald

Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity. --Thomas Merton (1915-1968) _No Man Is An Island_ [1955], "Prologue"

In grief we know the worst of what we feel, But who can tell the end of what we fear? -Hannah More

The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety. --George Mueller (1805-1898) _Sign of the Times_

I compare the troubles which we have to undergo in the course of the year to a great bundle of faggots, far too large for us to lift. But God does not require us to carry the whole at once. He mercifully unties the bundle, and gives us first one stick, which we are to carry today, and then another, which we are to carry tomorrow, and so on. This we might easily manage, if we would only take the burden appointed for each day; but we choose to increase our troubles by carrying yesterday's stick over again today, and adding tomorrow's burden to the load, before we are required to bear it. -- John Newton (1725-1807)

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all. -- Ovid

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.--Norman Vincent Peale

He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over. Beilby Porteus

I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time. -Charles Schulz

Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.--Fulton J. Sheen

'Each day has troubles enough of its own' So why anticipate them? If we do, we double them. For if our fear does not materialize, we have worried once for nothing; if it does materialize, we have worried twice instead of once. In both cases; it is foolish: worry doubles trouble.-- John R. W. Stott

A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles. -- B B Warfield

Worry, the interest paid by those who borrow trouble. -- George Washington (1732-1799)

Doth God give us a Christ, and will he deny us a crust? If God doth not give us what we crave, He will give us what we need. -- THOMAS WATSON

Immoderate care takes the heart off from better things; and usually while we are thinking how we shall do to live, we forget how to die. We may sooner by our care add a furlong to our grief, than a foot to our comfort. THOMAS WATSON