Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
No longer forward nor behind I look in hope and fear; But grateful take the good I find, The best of now and here. - John G. Whittier
It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more on a man than he can bear. But worry is rust upon the blade. It is not movement that destroys the machinery, but friction.- Henry Ward Beecher
Be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's and truth's.- William Shakespeare
Never let life's hardships disturb you ... no one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages.- Nichiren Daishonen
Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.- Jonathan Edwards
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