"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any m

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment." --Aurelius "People are disturbed not by things, but by the views they take of them." --Epictitus. "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." --Shakespeare.