We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
-John Lancaster Spalding
Quotations
Worry
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
-Michel De Montaigne
"Essays"
Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway.
-Mary C. Crowley
I highly recommend worrying. It is much more effective than dieting.
-William Powell
There is always sufficient reason for despair, but there is never sufficient purpose.
-Robert Brault
Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff.
-Robert Eliot
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
-James Russell Lowell
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
-George Bernard Shaw
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
Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
