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1- What difference does it make what your position in life is, if you dislike it yourself?
Seneca, Roman philosopher and politician, Letters to Lucilius
2- Not happy he who thinks himself not so.
Unknown ancient roman or Greek authorship, cited in Seneca Letters to Lucilius
3- Happiness is an ideal of the imagination, not of reason.
Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804, German philosopher, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Ethics

4- The life of the folly is empty of gratitude, full of anxiety, all of it focused in the ghosts of the future.
Epicurus, 341-270 b.C., Greek philosopher, Letter to Meneoceus
5- We must heal our misfortunes by the grateful recollection of what has been and by the recognition that it is impossible to make undone what has been done.
Epicurus, 341-270 b.C., Greek philosopher, The Extant Remains
6- Overlook what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows.
Horace, 65-8 a. C., Roman poet, Odes

7- Believe each day that has dawned is your last, and some hour for which you haven’t been expecting will prove lovely.
Horace, 65-8 a. C., Roman poet, Epistles

8- Everything that will happen belongs to the domain of the uncertain. Live now.
Seneca, in Andre Comte-Sponville, The Little Book of Philosophy, Vintage

9- Projecting our thoughts far ahead of us, instead of adapting ourselves to the present, is cause of fear. Foresight, the greatest blessing humanity has been given, is also a curse.
Seneca, Roman philosopher and politician, Letters to Lucilius

10- What’s the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, or of being unhappy now just because you were then? (…) When troubles come to an end, the natural thing is to be glad.
Seneca, Roman philosopher and politician, Letters to Lucilius

11- Wild animals run from the dangers they actually see, and once they have escaped them worry no more. We however are tormented alike by what is past and what is to come.
Seneca, Roman philosopher and politician, Letters to Lucilius