People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Worry
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
I highly recommend worrying. It is much more effective than dieting.
-William Powell
Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff.
-Robert Eliot
There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry... Yesterday and Tomorrow.
-Robert Jones Burdette
Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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"
If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.
-Dean Smith
