We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
-John Lancaster Spalding
Quotations
Worry
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
-William Inge
If things go wrong, don't go with them.
-Roger Babson
Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.
-E. B. White
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
-Michel De Montaigne
"Essays"
Don't think you are getting worried because it is a matter of 'worry'; as the same
news yields different intensities of worries in each person.
-Deep Trivedi
Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
Worry is a misuse of imagination.
-Dan Zadra
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
-James Russell Lowell
Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
-Theodore N. Vail
