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"
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
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
There is always sufficient reason for despair, but there is never sufficient purpose.
-Robert Brault
Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry... Yesterday and Tomorrow.
-Robert Jones Burdette
