People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Worry
Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
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
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
If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.
-Dean Smith
Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.
-E. W. Howe
As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.
-Julius Caesar
We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
-John Lancaster Spalding
We all worry about the population explosion, but we don’t worry about it at the right time.
-Arthur Hoppe
