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Epictetus Quotes - Page 3

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Now is the time to get serious about living your ideals. Once you have determined the spiritual principles you wish to exemplify, abide by these rules as if they were laws, as if it were indeed sinful to compromise

Now is the time to get serious about living your ideals. Once you have determined the spiritual principles you wish to exemplify, abide by these rules as if they were laws, as if it were indeed sinful to compromise them. Don't mind if others don't share your convictions. How long can you afford to put off who you really want to be? Your nobler self cannot wait any longer.

Life, Spiritual, Self

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.

Greatness, Order, Focus

Desire and happiness cannot live together.

Desire, Together

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

Love, True Friend, Lying

Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.

Life, Lying, Freedom And Happiness

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

Kindness, Communication, Compassion

"The Golden Sayings of Epictetus" by Epictetus, translated by Hastings Crossley, Vol. II, Part 2, The Harvard Classics. New York: P.F. Collier & Son, 1909.

Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control. Stop aspiring to be anyone other than your own best self: for that does fall within your control.

Lying, Fall, Self

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

Life, Stupid, Silly

Epictetus (2012). “The Handbook of Epictetus”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.

Spiritual, Attitude, Inspiration

Epictetus, Sharon Lebell (2013). “The Art of Living: The Classical Mannual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness”, p.10, Harper Collins

To live a life of virtue, you have to become consistent, even when it isn't convenient, comfortable, or easy.

Spiritual, Virtue, Easy

Who exactly do you want to be? What kind of person do you want to be? What are your personal ideals? Whom do you admire? What are their special traits that you would make your own It's time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to become wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become. If you have a daybook, write down who you're trying to be, so that you can refer to this self-determination. Precisely describe the demeanor you want to adopt so that you may preserve it when you are by yourself or with other people.

Wise, Determination, Writing

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.

Thinking, Who I Am, Laughing

An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.

Wise, Men, Ignorant

Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.

Motivational, Independent, Authentic Happiness

As you think, so you become.....Our busy minds are forever jumping to conclusions, manufacturing and interpreting signs that aren't there.

Life, Thinking, Jumping

What matters most is what sort of person you are becoming. Wise individuals care only about whom they are today and who they can be tomorrow.

Wise, What Matters, Care

Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, and desires and the demons that distract us from these goals. Outside of our control are such things as what kind of body we have, whether or not we are born into wealth, and how we are regarded by others.

Goal, Desire, Body

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Epictetus (1807). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses in Four Books Preserved by Arrian, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.111

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.

Inspiring, Attitude, Events

"Victims and Values : A History and a Theory of Suffering". Book by Joseph Anthony Amato, David Monge (p. 36), 1990.

These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even to speak of himself or his own merits.

Wise, Wisdom, Men

Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.

Positive Thinking, Power Of Positive Thinking

I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived - and dying I will tend to later.

Lunch, Dying, Hours

What is a good person? One who achieves tranquillity by having formed the habit of asking on every occasion, "what is the right thing to do now?"

Life, Asking, Good Person

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Inspirational, Beauty, Fashion

Epictetus (1758). “All the Works of Epictetus: Which are Now Extant; Consisting of His Discourses, Preserved by Arrian, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.227

Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control

Motivational, Hurt, Choices

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