I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods, “Economy” #infj

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination. – Christian Nevell Bovee

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us. – John Lancaster Spalding

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three — all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have. – Edward Everett Hale