Drought Trigger

B-Negative: A pessimist's blood type - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due. - William R Inge

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. - Lily Tomlin

Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records. - William A. Ward

Worry is today's mice nibbling on tomorrow's cheese. - Unknown

Put your trust in the Lord and go ahead. Worry gets you no place. - Roy Acuff

Reality: The leading cause of stress among those in touch with it. - Lily Tomlin

A pessimist is someone who makes difficulties of his opportunities. - Unknown

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists. - Don Marquis

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. - Oscar Wilde

Most of the stuff people worry about ain't never gonna happen anyway. - Unknown

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. - Natalie Goldberg

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends. - Plutarch

Don't worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will avoid you. - Winston Churchill

There is not enough time in life to worry about there being enough time in life. - Atticus

Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have no time for the pitiful. - Sean O'Faolain

Stress depletes willpower, which diminishes your ability to control those emotions. - Roy F Baumeister

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. - William James

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists. - Jean Rostand

Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. - Robert G. Ingersoll

Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. - Albert Einstein

An optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity. - Winston Churchill

People don't really know whether they are committed to something until they face adversity. - John C Maxwell

Don't worry that your children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. - Robert Fulghum

You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do. - Olin Miller

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act. - Howard Zinn

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. - Joseph Addison

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them. - Robert Benchley

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's jobs with yesterday's tools. - Marshall McLuhan

I went to the bank and reviewed my savings. I found out I have all the money I'll ever need if I die tomorrow. - Henny Youngman

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - the main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away. - John Steinbeck

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. - Matthew 6:34

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight. - Josh Billings

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right. - Jack Nicholson

Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then. - John Wooden

Worrying is less work than doing something to fix the worry. Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom with the dishes. - P.J. O'Rourke

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. - Anne Bradstreet

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. - Dale Carnegie