Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
This is Aurelius at his most reassuring. The anxiety about tomorrow is always worse than tomorrow itself, because tomorrow you will have your full faculties — the same mind, the same resources, the same capacity for problem-solving that you have right now. The future version of you is not helpless. They are you, with more information.
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. I...”
Viktor Frankl“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
Robert Frost“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”
Seneca