"Man is not worried by real problems so……" — Epictetus
"Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems"
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353 Quotes by Epictetus
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Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people…
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and…
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Freedom is secured not by the fulfillment of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.
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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.
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To pay homage to beauty is to admire Nature; to admire Nature is to worship God
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Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price…
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Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
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Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not…
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The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.
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I am not eternity, but a man; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day.
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What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events?
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I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.
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If you read Keats's poems, they're often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tough.
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We live longer than our forefathers; but we suffer more from a thousand artificial anxieties and cares. They fatigued only…
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Our stresses, anxieties, pains, and problems arise because we do not see the world, others, or even ourselves as worthy…
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To each of man's ages the Lord gives its own anxieties.
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We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.
— Winston Churchill
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Silence has many dimensions. It can be a regression and an escape, a loss of self, or it can be…
— Thomas Merton
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A meditator cannot smoke, for the simple reason that he never feels nervous, in anxiety, in tension. Smoking helps -…
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The Devil's strategy for our times is to trivialize human existence and isolate us from one another while creating the…
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The family gives you ambition, and ambition is one of the hindrances for enlightenment. It gives you desires, it gives…
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Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible…
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Popular religion is a coping mechanism for the anxieties of a dysfunctional social and economic environment.
— Gregory S. Paul
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