We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
-John Lancaster Spalding
Quotations
Worry
Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.
-E. B. White
Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
There is always sufficient reason for despair, but there is never sufficient purpose.
-Robert Brault
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
Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff.
-Robert Eliot
Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway.
-Mary C. Crowley
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
-Michel De Montaigne
"Essays"
It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.
-George MacDonald
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
-William Inge
