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Thinking Quotes by Epictetus
- What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
- It is unreasonable to think we can earn rewards without being willing to pay their true price. It is always our choice whether or not…
- Consider the bigger picture.....think things through and fully commit!
- 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…
- As you think, so you become.....Our busy minds are forever jumping to conclusions, manufacturing and interpreting signs that aren't there.
- Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
- If you think you control things that are in the control of others, you will lament. You will be disturbed and you will blame both…
- Watch yourself as you go about your daily business and later reflect on what you saw, trying to identify the sources of distress in your…
- Things themselves don't hurt or hinder us. Things simply are what they are. How we view these things is another matter.People think what they will…
- It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.
- Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going…
- Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person.…
- It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens." Epictetus
- It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
- I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they…
- Let no man think that he is loved by any who loveth none.
- What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn…
- When you let go of your attention for a little while, do not think you may recover it whenever you please.
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