Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind. Epictetus More Quotes by Epictetus More Quotes From Epictetus It is not the events but our viewpoint toward events that is the determining factor. We ought to be more concerned about removing wrong thoughts from the mind than removing tumors and abscesses from the body. Epictetus viewpointseventsmind Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions. Vigilantly practice polite indifference to that which we can't control. Your happiness can only be found within. Epictetus indifferenceindependentpractice In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices. Epictetus choicesjobstwo It has been ordained that there be summer and winter, abundance and dearth, virtue and vice, and all such opposites for the harmony of the whole, and (Zeus) has given each of us a body, property, and companions. Epictetus summeroppositeswinter On the occasion of every accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use. Epictetus aviationsafetyuse Only the educated are free. Epictetus educationteacherlife We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope. Epictetus philosophicalchildhoodanchors God has entrusted me with myself. No man is free who is not master of himself. A man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going. Epictetus littlesmenworld To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete. Epictetus teachingeducationlife People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them. Epictetus attitudepositiveinspirational It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them. Epictetus wisdomstupidwise Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee. Epictetus philosophicalpassionthee Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. Epictetus greek-philosopherpatienceinspirational Not things, but opinions about things, trouble men. Epictetus opinionoxfordmen There is nothing good or evil save in the will. Epictetus philosophicalevilreligion Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life. Epictetus wishinspirationallife Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope. Epictetus niecehopelife Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly world may make upon you, for their censures are not in your power and should not be at all your concerns. Epictetus achievementreflectionsilly If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase. Epictetus angerwishgiving It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another, nor himself. Epictetus blameinstructionmen
