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Happens Quotes by Epictetus
- Sickness is a hindrance to the body, but not to your ability to choose, unless that is your choice. Lameness is a hindrance to the…
- When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
- When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us, but our interpretation…
- I am always content with what happens; for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose.
- A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither, the one…
- It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
- Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
- It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens." Epictetus
- We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us.
- 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,…
- No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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