Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.
The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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.
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.