We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
-John Lancaster Spalding
Quotations
Worry
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
-Elbert Hubbard
"The Note Book"
As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.
-Julius Caesar
Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.
-E. W. Howe
Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway.
-Mary C. Crowley
No matter how grave a problem you are stuck in, to resolve it you must know the
difference between 'thinking' and 'worrying'. Reflecting upon it, however complex
a problem may be, it soon gets solved; whereas worrying about the problem,
you are consumed by it.
-Deep Trivedi
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
-George Bernard Shaw
Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
-Michel De Montaigne
"Essays"
It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.
-George MacDonald
