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External Quotes by Epictetus
- Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
- What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that…
- Freedom and happiness come from understanding - and working with - our limits. Begin at once a program of self-mastery. Stick with your purpose. Do…
- The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
- There is but one way to tranquility of mind and happiness, and that is to account no external things thine own, but to commit all…
- You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at various…
- If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know…
- Seek not the good in external things;seek it in yourselves.
- God has entrusted me with myself. No man is free who is not master of himself. A man should so live that his happiness shall…
- To Epictetus, all external events are determined by fate, and are thus beyond our control, but we can accept whatever happens calmly and dispassionately. Individuals,…
- We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.
More External Quotes
- I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the… — A. R. Ammons
- The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power has been much more ambivalent. The public supported America's… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
- Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which… — B.K.S. Iyengar
- It is not only visitors to the zoo who are fascinated but uneasy in the presence of chimpanzees; the same is true… — Frans de Waal
- In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does… — Saint Basil
- While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need… — Larry Bird
- It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and… — H. P. Blavatsky
- We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling… — H. P. Blavatsky