Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
Quotations
Worry
I highly recommend worrying. It is much more effective than dieting.
-William Powell
We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
-John Lancaster Spalding
There is always sufficient reason for despair, but there is never sufficient purpose.
-Robert Brault
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
If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.
-Dean Smith
We all worry about the population explosion, but we don’t worry about it at the right time.
-Arthur Hoppe
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"
