“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.”
“Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.”
“The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.”
“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more in imagination than in reality.”
“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
“Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.”
“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing.”
“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
“When you are feeling upset, angry, or sad, don’t blame another for your state of mind. Your condition is the result of your own opinions and interpretations.”
“Today I escaped from anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions—not outside.”