The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
-Elbert Hubbard
"The Note Book"
Quotations
Worry
Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.
-E. W. Howe
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
We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
-John Lancaster Spalding
Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff.
-Robert Eliot
If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.
-Dean Smith
Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
We all worry about the population explosion, but we don’t worry about it at the right time.
-Arthur Hoppe
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
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
-George Bernard Shaw
