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
Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power. — 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
You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
The wise realize that some things are within their control, and most things are not. They learn early on to distinguish between… — 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
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word,… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, and desires and the demons that distract us from these goals. Outside of our… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not. — 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
