We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
-John Lancaster Spalding
Quotations
Worry
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
-James Russell Lowell
If worrying were an Olympic sport, you'd get the gold for sure.
-Anonymous
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
-William Inge
No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.
-George MacDonald
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
-George Bernard Shaw
Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff.
-Robert Eliot
Worry is a misuse of imagination.
-Dan Zadra
As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.
-Julius Caesar
