I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
-- Mark Twain
If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones.
-- Don Herold
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which will never happen.
-- James Russel Lowell
People gather bundles of sticks to build bridges they never cross.
-- Unknown
Some of your hurts you have cured,
And the sharpest you still have survived,
But what torments of grief you endured
From the evil which never arrived.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.
-- Edgar Watson Howe
How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
-- Thomas Jefferson
There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.
-- Josh Billings
There are more things, Lucilius, that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality.
-- Seneca
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
-- Michel de Montaigne
Pick one.
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