People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Worry
Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.
-E. W. Howe
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
-James Russell Lowell
As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.
-Julius Caesar
I highly recommend worrying. It is much more effective than dieting.
-William Powell
Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
-John Lancaster Spalding
There is always sufficient reason for despair, but there is never sufficient purpose.
-Robert Brault
Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff.
-Robert Eliot
We all worry about the population explosion, but we don’t worry about it at the right time.
-Arthur Hoppe
