Epictetus
(7 quotes)
Thursday Jun 8, 2023
Epictetus: Angering
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master;
he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
Thursday Mar 30, 2023
Epictetus: Freedom
Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
Thursday Jan 27, 2022
Epictetus: Imagined anxieties
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
Monday Dec 7, 2020
Epictetus: The best people to have by your side
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
Friday Sep 18, 2020
Epictetus: Other people's views and troubles
Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
Tuesday Mar 24, 2020
Epictetus: One way to happiness
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Tuesday Mar 26, 2019
Epictetus: What happens to you
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.