We suffer more often in imagination than in reality; a reminder to meet life with reason and optimism.
“There are more things likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”
It is easy to let the mind run ahead and rehearse everything that could go wrong. Often, the fear we build around an event is heavier than the event itself.
I want to be fearless without being careless: a rational optimist in life, willing to see what is actually in front of me rather than being ruled by imagined outcomes.