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“Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.”

·63 AD·Rome

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Napoleon Bonaparte

·1804

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided.

·500 BC

Men do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills

·500 BC·Qufu

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Thomas à Kempis

What doth care about future events bring thee, save sorrow upon sorrow? Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof. It is vain and useless to be disturbed or lifted up about future things which perhaps will never come.

·65 AD

It is indeed foolish to be unhappy now because you may be unhappy at some future time.

·1757

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

·135 AD

Men are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things.

·125 AD

It is not things that disturb us, but our judgments about things. For example, death is nothing terrible, for if it were, it would have appeared so to Socrates; but the judgment that death is terrible — that is the terrible thing.

Søren Kierkegaard

·1844

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Marcus Aurelius

·168 AD·Rome

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

·1903

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

·55 AD·Rome

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

·63 AD·Rome

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.

Marcus Aurelius

·171 AD·Carnuntum

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

·5th century BC·Qufu, China

If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.

Marcus Aurelius

·180 AD

External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now.

·49 AD·Corsica

The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.

Marcus Aurelius

·170 AD·Carnuntum

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

·1677·Amsterdam, Netherlands

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

·1759

If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

Winston Churchill

·1940·Commons

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.

·1981·Pune, India

Mind is the king of the senses; breath is the king of the mind.

·100 AD

The stomach is not to be loaded, for there is nothing so hostile to thought as a full belly.

Benjamin Franklin

·1745

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.