People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
-George Bernard Shaw
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
We all worry about the population explosion, but we don’t worry about it at the right time.
-Arthur Hoppe
We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
-John Lancaster Spalding
Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.
-E. W. Howe
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
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
-Michel De Montaigne
"Essays"
If worrying were an Olympic sport, you'd get the gold for sure.
-Anonymous
Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
