Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
-Theodore N. Vail
Quotations
Worry
Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The 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
Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.
-Dean Smith
Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.
-E. B. White
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
There is always sufficient reason for despair, but there is never sufficient purpose.
-Robert Brault
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
-James Russell Lowell
