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
It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.
-George MacDonald
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
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
Don't think you are getting worried because it is a matter of 'worry'; as the same
news yields different intensities of worries in each person.
-Deep Trivedi
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
-Elbert Hubbard
"The Note Book"
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
-William Inge
Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.
-E. B. White
