Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.
-E. W. Howe
Quotations
Worry
We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
-John Lancaster Spalding
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
-Michel De Montaigne
"Essays"
We all worry about the population explosion, but we don’t worry about it at the right time.
-Arthur Hoppe
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
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
-George Bernard Shaw
Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
-Theodore N. Vail
Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
