We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
-John Lancaster Spalding
Quotations
Worry
Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
-James Russell Lowell
Little minds have little worries; big minds have no time for worries.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway.
-Mary C. Crowley
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
-George Bernard Shaw
As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.
-Julius Caesar
Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
I highly recommend worrying. It is much more effective than dieting.
-William Powell
Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
