We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
-John Lancaster Spalding
Quotations
Worry
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
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
-James Russell Lowell
Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
If things go wrong, don't go with them.
-Roger Babson
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
There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry... Yesterday and Tomorrow.
-Robert Jones Burdette
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
Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
