“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.”
“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
“People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.”
“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.”
“What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.”
“The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.”
“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from 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.”
“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”