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"
Little minds have little worries; big minds have no time for worries.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
I highly recommend worrying. It is much more effective than dieting.
-William Powell
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
Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.
-E. W. Howe
Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
-Theodore N. Vail
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
-James Russell Lowell
There is always sufficient reason for despair, but there is never sufficient purpose.
-Robert Brault
I vow to let go of all worries and anxiety in order to be light and free.
-Thich Nhat Hanh " Thich Nhat Hanh"
