Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
-James Russell Lowell
Quotations
Worry
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
-Michel De Montaigne
"Essays"
There is always sufficient reason for despair, but there is never sufficient purpose.
-Robert Brault
I highly recommend worrying. It is much more effective than dieting.
-William Powell
Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff.
-Robert Eliot
As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.
-Julius Caesar
Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
-John Lancaster Spalding
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
-Elbert Hubbard
"The Note Book"
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
-George Bernard Shaw
