black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.

Epictetus

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.
EPICTETUS

Avoid Body Pralysis Soul Trouble
If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
EPICTETUS

Freedom Inspirational Let Go Life Live Sorrow
It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
EPICTETUS

Abundance Die Fear Hunger Live Trouble
The best place to get help is from yourself.
EPICTETUS

Confidence Help Inspirational One Liner Place Yourself
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.
EPICTETUS

Aspiration People Regard Spiritual Superior Yourself
It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
EPICTETUS

Business Finish Motivational Patience Start Success
Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
EPICTETUS

Demand Happen Inspirational Satisfaction
Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
EPICTETUS

Control Freedom Goals Life Win Worth
Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
EPICTETUS

Account Giving Inspirational Life Positive
If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
EPICTETUS

Book Poet Reading Writing
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.
EPICTETUS

Defeat Fear Gain Seek Truth Victory
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
EPICTETUS

Impossible Learning Man Thinking
We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
EPICTETUS

Carry Focus Greatness Inspirational Need Seed
People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
EPICTETUS

Disturb Human Nature Imagination People
We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
EPICTETUS

Believe Confidence Faith Inspirational Time
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
EPICTETUS

One Liner Philosophy Reality Sustain

Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Epictetus Quotes