“Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Source: Traveling Light: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear
“Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Have You a Hobby?, Answers, 21 April 1934
Reproduced in The Collected Essays of Sir Winston Churchill, Vol IV, Churchill at Large, Centenary Edition (1976), Library of Imperial History, p. 288. ISBN 0903988453
The 1930s
“Worry drains the mind of its power and, sooner or later, it injures the soul”
Robin S. Sharma (1965) Canadian self help writer
Source: The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams Reaching Your Destiny
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Love and Death (1975)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
'Aids to Reflection (1873), Aphorism 26
“I am free of the busy world
There is not a doubt in my heart or a worry to disturb my mind”
Han-shan Chinese monk and poet
Cold Mountain Transcendental Poetry
Context: Today I sat before the cliff
Until the mist and rainbows disappeared
I followed the emerald stream
Explored a thousand tiers of green cliffs
In the morning my spirit rests among white clouds
At night a bright moon floats in the sky
I am free of the busy world
There is not a doubt in my heart or a worry to disturb my mind
Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774–1862) French scientist
Les esprits partagés, s'égarant dans des routes différentes, perdent l'immense avantage qui résulterait de leurs forces réunies.
[Jean-Baptiste Biot, Traité de physique expérimentale et mathématique, volume I, Deterville, 1816, http://books.google.com/books?id=J6QIAAAAIAAJ, ii]