More from Epictetus
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
EpictetusEpictetus Desire and happiness cannot live together.
EpictetusEpictetus Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
EpictetusEpictetus If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
EpictetusEpictetus We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
EpictetusEpictetus 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.
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Let them run wild like the free spirits they are.
Amanda KarchAmanda Karch I breathe in the first glimmers of freedom – it tastes of sweet hopefulness.
Alma-May NoaAlma-May Noa A creature lives deep within, rotting far beneath my skin. Touch the pain inside of me, just to let my heart be free.
Alexandra MichelleAlexandra Michelle And as the rain fell and the birds kept singing, I realized that freedom is a choice.
Shelby EnsignShelby Ensign We are all born free and spend a lifetime becoming slaves to our own false truths.
AtticusAtticus Sweet oblivion please come and carry me off to freedom, at last.
Carmen AmadosCarmen Amados There’s this kind of freedom in saying what I think I could lay to rest eternally in ink.
Emma SchippersEmma Schippers And now you are the butterfly finally free.
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