We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
-John Lancaster Spalding
Quotations
Worry
Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
-William Inge
Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.
-E. W. Howe
Worry is a misuse of imagination.
-Dan Zadra
If worrying were an Olympic sport, you'd get the gold for sure.
-Anonymous
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
Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
-Theodore N. Vail
Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff.
-Robert Eliot
