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Letting Go of the Past

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You can’t live in the past. If you try, it prevents you from doing anything constructive today to build a better tomorrow for yourself and your family.
— Pat Williams

Regardless of your past, your future is a clean slate.
— Anonymous

You can’t change what happened yesterday no matter how hard you try, so don’t spend time worrying about it.
— Pat Williams

Should-haves solve nothing. It’s the next thing to happen that needs thinking about.
— Alexandra Ripley

Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as fast as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear with hopes and invitations to waste a moment on the yesterdays.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Power of Patience

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Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.
— Benjamin Franklin

True patience is waiting without worrying.
— Anonymous

Be patient in little things. Learn to bear the everyday trials and annoyances of life quietly and calmly, and then, when unforeseen trouble or calamity comes, your strength will not forsake you.
— William Plumer

Patience with others is love, patience with self is hope, patience with God is faith.
— Adel Bestavros

But these things I plan won’t happen right away. Slowly, steadily, surely, the time approaches when the vision will be fulfilled. If it seems slow, do not despair, for these things will surely come to pass. Just be patient! They will not be overdue a single day!
— Habakkuk 2:3 (TLB)

Worry

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Worry makes for a hard pillow. When something’s troubling you, before going to sleep, jot down three things you can do the next day to help solve the problem.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
— Sir John Lubbock

Throughout my life, I have always had the ability to concentrate on what has to be done and not worry about things I can’t do anything about.
— Joe Paterno

Our Lord never worried and He was never anxious, because He was not out to realize His own ideas; He was out to realize God’s.
— Oswald Chambers

I may be a strange animal but I don’t worry. Whenever I make a decision, I start out recognizing there’s a strong likelihood I’m going to be wrong. All I can do is the best I can. To worry puts obstacles in the way of clear thinking.
— Fletcher Byrom

Put God First

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I tried both honoring myself and honoring God, and life seemed to make more sense when I put God first.
— Tom Osborne

Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart.
— Psalm 37:4

If God is anything we ought to make Him everything; you cannot put God in second place.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

When Christ becomes our central focus – our reason for existence – contentment replaces our anxiety as well as our fears and insecurities.
— Charles Swindoll

Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
— Matthew 6:33

Worry

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There’s no sense in worrying about things you can control, because if you can control them, there’s no sense worrying. And there’s no sense in worrying about things you can’t control, because if you can’t control them, there’s no sense in worrying about them.
— Mickey Rivers

To break the habit of worry, you must develop the habit of prayer.
— Charles Stanley

Worry is simply thinking the same thing over and over again – and not doing anything about it.
— Branch Rickey

Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
— Luke 12:25

At least 90 percent of the time, the things I worry about never happen. And even if they do happen, the worry has almost always done more damage to me than the thing itself.
— Pat Williams

Faith

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Living a life of faith often requires us to leave things alone.
— A.B. Simpson

Sorrow looks back. Worry looks around. Faith looks up.
— Sir John Mason

Faith expects from God what is beyond all expectation.
— Andrew Murray

Faith is not a leap in the dark; it is a leap out of darkness into the light.
— David Reed

Little faith must have everything very plain or else it cannot move at all; but great faith makes crooked things straight, sees light in the midst of darkness, and gathers comfort out of discouragement.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The Power of Work

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Success comes to those who know it isn’t coming to them and who go out to get it.
— Frank Tyger

I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

I have always found, when I was worrying, that the best thing to do was put my mind upon something, work hard and forget what was troubling me.
— Thomas Edison

Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
— Eric Hoffer

Men give me some credit for genius. All the genius I have lies in this: When I have a subject at hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. I explore it in all its bearings. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the efforts that I make are what people are pleased to call the fruits of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.
— Alexander Hamilton