Little minds have little worries; big minds have no time for worries.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Worry
Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
-John Lancaster Spalding
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"
Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
-Theodore N. Vail
Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
-Michel De Montaigne
"Essays"
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
-James Russell Lowell
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
