074Japanese proverb ことわざ
案ずるより産むが易し
あんずるよりうむがやすしAnzuru yori umu ga yasushi
“Doing is easier than fearing.”
Word for wordGiving birth is easier than worrying about it.
The meaning
Apprehension magnifies trials; action returns them to their real size. Most difficulties are gentler to live than to imagine.
At the origin
A proverb born of childbirth experience, extended to all worries.
The characters
- 案ずる anzuruto worry
- より yorirather than
- 産む
- が
- 易し
In practice
The thing you have dreaded for days: try its first minute.