We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

John Lancaster Spalding
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  1. Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic. - Unknown

  2. After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love... - Paulo Coelho

  3. Life is like a game of chess. To win you have to make a move. Knowing which move to make comes with IN-SIGHTand knowledge, and by learning the lessons that areacculated along the way. We become each and every piece within the game called life! - Allan Rufus

  4. Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. - Unknown

  5. Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly. - Unknown

More Quotes By John Lancaster Spalding
  1. Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

  2. We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

  3. The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.

  4. Your faith is what you believe not what you know.

  5. If all were gentle and contented as sheep all would be as feeble and helpless.

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