The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
EPICTETUSIt takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
More Epictetus Quotes
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
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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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Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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