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Things Quotes by Epictetus
- We need to regularly stop and take stock; to sit down and determine within ourselves which things are worth valuing and which things are not;…
- Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them
- You lose only the things you have
- Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit
- Not things, but opinions about things, trouble men.
- When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention…
- Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you…
- What disturbs people, these are not things, but the judgments relating to things
- Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not.
- Some things are up to us [eph' hêmin] and some things are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us, and our impulses,…
- It is a mark of a mean capacity to spend much time on the things which concern the body, such as much exercise, much eating,…
- What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
- No man is able to make progress when he is wavering between opposite things.
- No man is disturbed by things, but by his opinion about things.
- Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control. Stop aspiring to be anyone other…
- Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not. It is only…
- In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with…
- Consider the bigger picture.....think things through and fully commit!
- Ask yourself: Does this appearance (of events) concern the things that are within my own control or those that are not? If it concerns anything…
- 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…
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