anxiety

"He suffers more than is necessary, who suffers before it is necessary."

"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."

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

"Confine yourself to the present."

"Do not be disturbed by gloomy thoughts about your whole life. Do not mentally picture all the various troubles which you are fairly sure to encounter during the course of your life, but as each one occurs ask: What is there in this that is unbearable or beyond endurance?"

"Today I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions—not outside."

"We suffer more in imagination than in reality."

"The mind that is anxious about future miseries is miserable now."

"We suffer more in imagination than in reality."

"The mind that is anxious about future miseries is miserable now."

"One of the greatest sources of suffering is the anxiety we feel about things that might happen but probably never will."