Then she tripped back to them with sparkling eyes and smiling cheeks, having regained her usual happy mood and forgotten all her
worry about being lost.
"It isn't the thing itself I
worry about," Sir Alfred said thoughtfully,--"they'll never decode that message.
'Don't
worry about that,' replied the girl, 'for I've thought it all over, and have settled on a plan which will make us each able to bear with the other!
The Bible says in Philippians 4:6-7, "Don't
worry about anything; instead, pray about everything.
I often wish my mum was still alive so I could ask her if she worried about me as much as I
worry about my kids.
What do people commonly
worry about? Are all they
worry about worth worrying about?
"I
worry about his accounting, as we all do, but you know I have other colleagues in my life that I
worry about that for.
Slightly fewer Americans, 37%,
worry about not having enough money to put a child through college.
Slim majorities also
worry about crime and violence, federal spending and the budget deficit, and the availability of guns.
How wonderful to learn that worrying can be constructive as well and get us worriers to make contingency plans for all kinds of things we
worry about.
In a nationally representative sample of Americans, feelings of
worry about skin cancer predicted sunscreen use.
How I worry, I worry such a lot So many things I
worry about, many I forgot Did I put the fire out?
Metaworry (i.e.,
worry about worry) is activated when worry becomes excessive, promoting negative metabeliefs about worry.