We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
-John Lancaster Spalding
Quotations
Worry
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
-Michel De Montaigne
"Essays"
Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.
-E. B. White
I vow to let go of all worries and anxiety in order to be light and free.
-Thich Nhat Hanh " Thich Nhat Hanh"
Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.
-E. W. Howe
If things go wrong, don't go with them.
-Roger Babson
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
-George Bernard Shaw
Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
-Theodore N. Vail
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
-James Russell Lowell
