Quote by Epictetus Download Open image ““People feel disturbed not by things, but by the views they take of them.”” — Epictetus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.” — Epictetus Copy Share Image
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“Everywhere you look you see people with things that you do not have, and it has a profound mental effect.” — Damien Echols Copy Share Image
“Few realize that they can control the way they feel and positively affect the things that come into their life experience by deliberately directing… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
“Disturbing emotions arise from the things we see, things we hear and things we taste. But these things have no reality. No reality.” — Sushma Joshi Copy Share Image
“There's so much nonsense about human inconstancy and the transience of all emotions. I've always thought that a feeling which changes never existed in… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Situations themselves don’t create our emotional experience; it is only our thoughts about them that make us suffer.” — Noah Elkrief Copy Share Image
“To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don't listen to their words, but watch their actions.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“You can see your thoughts and emotions arise & create space for them even if they are uncomfortable.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Few things are as destructive and limiting as a worldview that assumes people are mostly rational.” — Scott Adams 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
