If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.
-Dean Smith
Quotations
Worry
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
-William Inge
There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry... Yesterday and Tomorrow.
-Robert Jones Burdette
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
-George Bernard Shaw
Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.
-George MacDonald
If worrying were an Olympic sport, you'd get the gold for sure.
-Anonymous
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
We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
-John Lancaster Spalding
Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.
-E. W. Howe
