No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
EPICTETUSI laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous, even death is terrible only if we fear it.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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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.
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