Quotations

«Now that I am ninety-five years old, looking back over the years, I have seen many changes taking place, so many inventions have been made. Things now go faster. In olden times things were not so rushed. I think people were more content, more satisfied with life than they are today. You don?t hear nearly as much laughter and shouting as you did in my day, and what was fun for us wouldn?t be fun now.... In this age I don?t think people are as happy, they are worried. They?re too anxious to get ahead of their neighbors, they are striving and striving to get something better. I do think in a way that they have too much now. We did with much less.»

«There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.»

«I used to worry about what life was for - now being alive seems sufficient reason.»

«People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.»

«I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.»

«It only seems as if you're doing something when you worry.»

«There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever»

«There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry... Yesterday and Tomorrow.»

«The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.»

«If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.»