The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
EPICTETUSThe more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
EPICTETUSWe 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.
EPICTETUSImagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
EPICTETUSWhen something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
EPICTETUSNo matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
EPICTETUSYou have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
EPICTETUSRuin and recovering are both from within.
EPICTETUSSmall-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
EPICTETUSKnow you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
EPICTETUSIt 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.
EPICTETUSIt is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
EPICTETUSWisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
EPICTETUSProgress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
EPICTETUSRenew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
EPICTETUSFreedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
EPICTETUSDon’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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