Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Survey and test a prospective action before undertaking it. Before you proceed, step back and look at the big picture, lest you… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught;but in life there are many things to draw us… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account! — Epictetus Copy Share Image
To live a life of virtue, you have to become consistent, even when it isn't convenient, comfortable, or easy. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
As you think, so you become…Our busy minds are forever jumping to conclusions, manufacturing and interpreting signs that aren't there. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.” — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Learn to distinguish what you can and can't control. Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, desires and the things that… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Remember that you are in actor in a play of such a kind that the author chooses...For this is your duty, to… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
As in walking it is your great care not to run your foot upon a nail, or to tread awry, and strain… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
In theory it is easy to convince an ignorant person; in actual life, men not only object to offer themselves to be… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“If a person gave your body to any stranger he met on is way, you would certainly be angry. And do you… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
It is unreasonable to think we can earn rewards without being willing to pay their true price. It is always our choice… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
No living being is held by anything so strongly as by its own needs. Whatever therefore appears a hindrance to these, be… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose? Nothing else. Tell me then, you men, do you wish… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Concerning the Gods, there are those who deny the very existence of the Godhead; others say that it exists, but neither bestirs… — 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
Now is the time to get serious about living your ideals. Once you have determined the spiritual principles you wish to exemplify,… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“Now is the time to get serious about living your ideals. How long can you afford to put off who you really… — 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… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Don't demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
We do not choose our own parts in life, and have nothing to do with those parts. Our duty is confined to… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Living a good life leads to enduring happiness. Goodness in and of itself is the practice AND the reward. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
A ship should not be held by a single anchor; neither should life depend upon a single hope. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is… — 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
