Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
-William Inge
Quotations
Worry
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
-George Bernard Shaw
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
-Michel De Montaigne
"Essays"
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
-Mahatma Gandhi
No matter how grave a problem you are stuck in, to resolve it you must know the
difference between 'thinking' and 'worrying'. Reflecting upon it, however complex
a problem may be, it soon gets solved; whereas worrying about the problem,
you are consumed by it.
-Deep Trivedi
Little minds have little worries; big minds have no time for worries.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.
-Julius Caesar
Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.
-E. W. Howe
Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
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
