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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.
- So you wish to conquer in the Olympic Games, my friend? And I, too... But first mark the conditions and the consequences. You will have…
- 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…
- Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.
- If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.
- Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
More Wish Quotes
- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- 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
- I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
- Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of… — Saint Augustine
- Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first… — Saint Augustine
- What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him… — Saint Augustine
- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. — Saint Augustine
- Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. — Marcus Aurelius