5 Stoic Quotes on Stress Reduction

  • "Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems." — Epictetus, Enchiridion 5

  • "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." — Epictetus, Enchiridion 8

  • "The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable." — Seneca, Moral Letters 98.5

  • "We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality." — Seneca, Moral Letters 13.4

  • "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." — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 8.47