Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

Kahlil Gibran

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

Confucius

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Leonardo da Vinci

One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious.

Alan Watts

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is history? Its beginning is that of the centuries of systematic work devoted to the solution of the enigma of death, so that death itself may eventually be overcome. That is why people write symphonies, and why they discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves.

Boris Pasternak