I enjoy the Huxley quote, especially after getting frustrated by his Brave New World then hearing about his reconceptualization of dystopia (which he didn't re-write) and utopia (which he did write).
as we used to say, 'don't sweat the small stuff.' still good advice.
I think you need to learn to not sweat the big stuff either. It's all just stuff. Like Montaigne says, "My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened."
I read something about 8 months ago or so similar to that Time article, in much more technical terms, in an anthology of cognitive science and social psychology essays.