Delightful Quote by Epictetus Download Open image “Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things become the least delightful.” — Epictetus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Delightful Delightful things Dues Exceed Funny Inspirational Love Success
“We tend to overvalue the things we can measure and undervalue the things we cannot.” — John Hayes Copy Share Image
“Simplicity is the ability to be satisfied with less even when there is more available.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“It is beyond a doubt that everyone should have time for some special delight, if only five minutes each day to seek out a… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
The less you can enjoy, the poorer, the scantier yourself - the more you can enjoy, the richer, the more vigorous. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
“Prize intensity more than extensity. Perfection resides in quality, not quantity. Extent alone never rises above mediocrity, and it is the misfortune of men… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“Elegance is achieved when, having discarded all superfluous things, we discover simplicity and concentration.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Every dish in the ferial cuisine, however, provides a double or treble delight: Not only is the body nourished and the palate pleased, the… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
“We are at the mercy of whoever wields authority over the things we either desire or detest. If you would be free, then, do… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on them, they… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.” — Epictetus Copy Share Image
What else can I do, a lame old man, but sing hymns to God? If I were a nightingale, I would do the nightingale's… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
The more perfect the sight is the more delightful the beautiful object. The more perfect the appetite, the sweeter the food. The more musical… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“I never met a pig I didn't like. All pigs are intelligent, emotional, and sensitive souls. They all love company. They all crave contact… — Sy Montgomery Copy Share Image
It is with the approach of winter that cats...wear their richest fur and assume an air of sumptuous and delightful opulence. — Pierre Loti Copy Share Image
Removing prejudices is, alas! too often removing the boundary of a delightful near prospect in order to let in a shockingly extensive one. — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
Someone on the internet referred to me as 'that horrible little man who's replacing Rob Lowe', which is hurtful, because I think of myself… — Joshua Malina Copy Share Image
Once you get yourself on that path where you're willing to find something delightful in laundry and in dishwashers, it means that you train… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past. As I learned… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
A solitary American monk named Thomas Berry writes that in our relationship to nature, we have been autistic for centuries. Wrapped tightly in our… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
In the mind engaged in struggling with hardship, one always finds something delightful. The sorrow of disappointment arises in the complacency of satisfaction. — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
We are at the moment looking at space as something to be entered by the tremendous thrust of a rocket because that is the… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
