Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
Quotations
Worry
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
-George Bernard Shaw
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
-Michel De Montaigne
"Essays"
There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry... Yesterday and Tomorrow.
-Robert Jones Burdette
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
-James Russell Lowell
Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.
-E. W. Howe
Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff.
-Robert Eliot
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
If things go wrong, don't go with them.
-Roger Babson
