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"
If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.
-Dean Smith
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
-Elbert Hubbard
"The Note Book"
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
If worrying were an Olympic sport, you'd get the gold for sure.
-Anonymous
Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
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
