Getting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the world… Focus on your main duty — Epictetus Copy Share Image
All human beings seek the happy life, but many confuse the means - for example, wealth and status - with that life… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
You become what you give your attention to...If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Focus not on what he or she does, but on keeping to your higher purpose. Your own purpose should seek harmony with… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
When you let go of your attention for a little while, do not think you may recover it whenever you please. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“We are at the mercy of whoever wields authority over the things we either desire or detest. If you would be free, then, do… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on them, they… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.” — Epictetus Copy Share Image
What else can I do, a lame old man, but sing hymns to God? If I were a nightingale, I would do the nightingale's… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
