We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
-John Lancaster Spalding
Quotations
Worry
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
-Michel De Montaigne
"Essays"
Little minds have little worries; big minds have no time for worries.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
-George Bernard Shaw
There is always sufficient reason for despair, but there is never sufficient purpose.
-Robert Brault
It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.
-George MacDonald
Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
-Theodore N. Vail
I highly recommend worrying. It is much more effective than dieting.
-William Powell
Worry is a misuse of imagination.
-Dan Zadra
As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.
-Julius Caesar
