Epictetus on accident
Epictetus94 quotes“Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.”
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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 the kind of person you aspire to become.
EpictetusEpictetus Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
EpictetusEpictetus 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.
EpictetusEpictetus We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.
EpictetusEpictetus Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
EpictetusEpictetus Don’t be concerned with other people’s impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
EpictetusEpictetus Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
EpictetusEpictetus Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
EpictetusEpictetus If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
EpictetusEpictetus What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
EpictetusEpictetus What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
EpictetusEpictetus Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
EpictetusEpictetus Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
EpictetusEpictetus Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
EpictetusEpictetus All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
EpictetusEpictetus Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
EpictetusEpictetus
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One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.
Kazuo IshiguroKazuo Ishiguro Accidental things have purpose.
L.T. PhoenixL.T. Phoenix Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
Joseph ConradJoseph Conrad That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift Life’s single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.
Thomas PynchonThomas Pynchon The trouble with a movie is that it’s old before it’s released. It’s no accident that it comes in a can.
Orson WellesOrson Welles A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
Orson WellesOrson Welles Don’t get upset with little problems because life is like a road and problems are like speed breakers, they save us from big accidents.
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