People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Worry
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
-James Russell Lowell
Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
-Theodore N. Vail
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
-Michel De Montaigne
"Essays"
Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff.
-Robert Eliot
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
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
Worry is a misuse of imagination.
-Dan Zadra
Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
