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.
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.
More Epictetus Quotes
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I 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.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
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It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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