Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.
-E. W. Howe
Quotations
Worry
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
-Elbert Hubbard
"The Note Book"
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
-George Bernard Shaw
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
-Michel De Montaigne
"Essays"
Little minds have little worries; big minds have no time for worries.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
-James Russell Lowell
As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.
-Julius Caesar
We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
-John Lancaster Spalding
Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
-Mahatma Gandhi
