We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
-John Lancaster Spalding
Quotations
Worry
Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff.
-Robert Eliot
I highly recommend worrying. It is much more effective than dieting.
-William Powell
Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.
-E. B. White
There is always sufficient reason for despair, but there is never sufficient purpose.
-Robert Brault
Little minds have little worries; big minds have no time for worries.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
-Theodore N. Vail
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
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
-Michel De Montaigne
"Essays"
