What hurts this person is not the occurrence itself, for another person might not feel oppressed by this situation at all. What… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
What disturbs people, these are not things, but the judgments relating to things — Epictetus Copy Share Image
What disturbs people's minds are not events but their judgments on events. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Who exactly do you want to be? What kind of person do you want to be? What are your personal ideals? Whom… — 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
All human beings seek the happy life, but many confuse the means - for example, wealth and status - with that life… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Embrace reality. Think about what delights you - the small luxuries on which you depend, the people whom you cherish most. But… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us,… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Things themselves don't hurt or hinder us. Things simply are what they are. How we view these things is another matter.People think… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Never depend on the admiration of others for self-satisfaction. It is a fact of life that other people, even people who love… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
And be silent for the most part, or else make only the most necessary remarks, and express these in few words. But… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Don't be concerned with other people's impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
It is not a demonstration of kindness or friendship to the people we care about to join them in indulging in wrongheaded,… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and without care. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not these whom you are in the habit of… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter… — 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
