He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
-Michel De Montaigne
"Essays"
Quotations
Worry
Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
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
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
-George Bernard Shaw
Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.
-E. W. Howe
Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff.
-Robert Eliot
We all worry about the population explosion, but we don’t worry about it at the right time.
-Arthur Hoppe
There is always sufficient reason for despair, but there is never sufficient purpose.
-Robert Brault
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
