| There are more things, Lucilius, that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality. |
| Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due. |
| Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head. |
| Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be. |
| There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them. |
| We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies. |
| Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained. |
| Don't chain your worries to your body. The burden soon becomes heavy and your health will give too much of itself to pick up the extra load. |
| How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened. |
| Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist. |