We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
-John Lancaster Spalding
Quotations
Worry
Worry is a misuse of imagination.
-Dan Zadra
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
-George Bernard Shaw
Little minds have little worries; big minds have no time for worries.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
-Theodore N. Vail
Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
