Fretting Quotes

“The day we finally hold ourselves accountable, rather than putting the blame on others, and come clean about our responsibilities, we unfetter ourselves from ravaging frustrations and fretting crankiness. ("The unbearable heaviness of being" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Don't get your balls crossed about it.”
― John Irving, Last Night in Twisted River

“We were made to be distracted by life, by story.”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“...if I were an angel of the Lord, I would mark the doors of each of my children's homes with an X, so that plague and misfortune would pass over them. Alas, I lack the qualifications. So when there was still world and time enough I fretted. I nagged. I corrected. I got everything wrong.”
― Mordecai Richler, Barney's Version

“If fretting was an Olympic sport, I’d own the gold medal”
― Lori Hatcher

“Any of them could have a disaster before the school year is over. You could have a disaster an hour from now. Bending over. Something could hit you. People carry guns in glove compartments and lunch boxes. Cars spin out of control in minor drizzle. The more you know, really, the more you have to worry and fret about. It's a miracle anyone can sleep at all.”
― Naomi Shihab Nye, There Is No Long Distance Now