Epictetus Quotes about Attitude

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It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Epictetus

Happiness, Moving On, Attitude

When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance. Things and people are not what we wish them to be nor are they what they seem to be. They are what they are.

Epictetus

Attitude, People, Wish

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.

Epictetus

Inspirational, Attitude, Anger

Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.

Epictetus

Attitude, Views, People

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

Epictetus

Spiritual, Attitude, Inspiration

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

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.

Epictetus

Inspiring, Attitude, Events

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