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Wish Quotes by Epictetus
- He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force; whose movements to…
- Your master is he who controls that on which you have set your heart or wish to avoid.
- It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify…
- 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…
- Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe this…
- Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not these whom you are in the habit of saying that they…
- Now is the time to get serious about living your ideals. Once you have determined the spiritual principles you wish to exemplify, abide by these…
- If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase. At…
- Learn to wish that everything should come to pass exactly as it does.
- 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…
- Don't demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.
- 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…
- If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and if…
- The origin of sorrow is this: to wish for something that does not come to pass.
- Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing?... what do you wish to be doing when…
- Remember that you are but an actor, acting whatever part the Master has ordained. It may be short or it may be long. If he…
- If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
- Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- If you wish to be a writer, write.
- Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.
More Wish Quotes
- Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree… — Samuel Johnson
- Personally, I wish D. would come after me, I need a good dance partner. My Daimons have lame legs. (Acheron) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
- Morning is a wonderful opportunity to wish, to love, to care, to smile and to see you in a good mood. — Pacifiersucker
- I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. — David Attenborough
- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden