Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
EPICTETUSEvery difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Only the educated are free.
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You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
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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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It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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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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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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