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If anyone is unhappy, remember that
his unhappiness is his own fault...
Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility
except our own opinion.
- Epictetus
Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology Positive Peace Happy Happiness
We cannot choose our external circumstances,
but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus
Is freedom anything else than the right
to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- Epictetus
If thy brother wrongs thee,
remember not so much his wrong-doing,
but more than ever that he is thy brother.
- Epictetus
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He is a wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus
You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
- Epictetus
Whoever does not regard what he has
as most ample wealth, is unhappy,
though he be master of the world.
- Epictetus
When you have shut your doors, and darkened your room,
remember, never to say that you are alone,
for you are not alone, but God is within,
and your genius is within.
- Epictetus
We have two ears and one mouth so that
we can listen twice as much as we speak.
- Epictetus
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it.
Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
- Epictetus
Men are disturbed not by things,
but by the view which they take of them.
- Epictetus
Do not seek to bring things to pass
in accordance with your wishes,
but wish for them as they are,
and you will find them.
- Epictetus
First say to yourself what you would be;
then do what you have to do.
- Epictetus
Fortify yourself with contentment,
for it is an impregnable fortress. -
- Epictetus
If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus
If evil be spoken of you
and it be true, correct yourself,
if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- Epictetus
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- Epictetus
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor,
nor should life rest on a single hope.
- Epictetus
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
We can't control the impressions others form about us,
and the effort to do so only debases our character.
- Epictetus
Make the best use of what is in your power,
and take the rest as it happens.
- Epictetus
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things,
and then proceed to greater.
- Epictetus
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
Control thy passions lest they take vengeance upon thee.
- Epictetus
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
Not every difficult and dangerous thing
is suitable for training,
but only that which is conducive to success
in achieving the object of our effort.
- Epictetus
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded,
but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus
Difficulties are things that show a person what he is.
- Epictetus
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.
- Epictetus
It is impossible to begin to learn
that which one thinks one already knows.
- Epictetus
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
Anyone is free who lives as he wishes to live.
- Epictetus
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it.
Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return.
Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?
- Epictetus
Imagine for yourself a character,
a model personality whose example you determine to follow,
in private as well as in public.
- Epictetus
Keep your attention focused entirely
on what is truly your own concern,
and be clear that what belongs to others
is their business and none of yours.
- Epictetus
No greater thing is created suddenly,
any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
If you tell me that you desire a fig,
I answer you that there must be time.
Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
- Epictetus
All religions must be tolerated...
for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Epictetus
It's not what happens to you,
but how you react to it that matters.
- Epictetus
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes
is a sign of want of education.
To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun.
To accuse neither oneself nor others
shows that one's education is complete.
- Epictetus
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich,
for the hopes of the instructed
are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
- Epictetus
If someone irritates you, it is only
your own response that is irritating you.
Therefore, when anyone seems to be provoking you,
remember that it is only your judgment
of the incident that provokes you. -
- Epictetus
All philosophy lies in two words,
sustain and abstain.
- Epictetus
Difficulties show men what they are.
In case of any difficulty,
remember that God has pitted you
against a rough antagonist
that you may be a conqueror,
and this cannot be without toil.
- Epictetus
Those who are dedicated to a life of wisdom
understand that the impulse to blame
something or someone is foolishness,
that there is nothing to be gained in blaming,
whether it be others or oneself.
- Epictetus
If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need
but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?
- 1 John 3:17
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
- St. Francis of Assisi
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have been all things unholy.
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Whether one believes in a religion or not,
and whether one believes in rebirth or not,
there isn't anyone who doesn't
appreciate kindness and compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
When you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you
that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
Anyone can heal who believes that he can
and will take the time to put that belief into motion.
- Ernest Holmes
When you pray for anyone, you tend to
modify your personal attitude toward them.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
ANYONE may become a revealer of Truth
who lives in close contact with the indwelling God.
- Ernest Holmes
If you want to be heroic,
Don't emulate your heroes,
learn from them.
Heroes don't follow anyone,
they set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't believe me,
don't believe yourself,
and don't believe anyone else.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A miracle is nothing more or less than this...
Anyone who has come into a knowledge
of his true identity,
of his oneness with
the all-pervading wisdom and power,
this makes it possible for laws higher
than the ordinary mind knows of
to be revealed to him.
- Ralph Waldo Trine
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority
is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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