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
Opportunity beckons more surely when misfortune comes upon a person than it ever does when that person is riding the crest of… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit evasions. Stop giving yourself needless… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
When you actively engage in gradually refining yourself, you retreat from your lazy ways of covering yourself or making excuses. Instead of… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
When we name things correctly, we comprehend them correctly, without adding information or judgements that aren't there. Does someone bathe quickly? Don't… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we… — 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
