No one who is in a state of fear or sorrow or tension is free, but whosoever is delivered from sorrows or fears or anxieties is at the same time delivered from servitude. Epictetus More Quotes by Epictetus More Quotes From Epictetus You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself. Epictetus being-yourself issues doe Men are not worried by things, but by their ideas about things. When we meet with difficulties, become anxious or troubled, let us not blame others, but rather ourselves. That is: our ideas about things. Epictetus blame men ideas He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force; whose movements to action are not impeded, whose desires attain their purpose, and who does not fall into that which he would avoid. Epictetus wish desire fall Silence is safer than speech. Epictetus speech silence quiet It is difficulties that show what men are. Epictetus courage men life Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them. Epictetus views fear men Every habit and faculty is preserved and increased by correspondent actions, as the habit of walking, by walking; of running, by running. Epictetus habit action running Learn to distinguish what you can and can't control. Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, desires and the things that repel us. They are directly subject to our influence. Epictetus opinion desire life All human beings seek the happy life, but many confuse the means - for example, wealth and status - with that life itself. This misguided focus on the means to a good life makes people get further from the happy life. The really worthwhile things are the virtuous activities that make up the happy life, not the external means that may seem to produce it. Epictetus motivational happiness life Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths. Epictetus pay-the-price volunteer character Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in now. Epictetus deeds challenges giving When the Idea, of any Pleasure strikes your Imagination... let that time be employed in making a just Computation between, the duration of the Pleasure, and that of the Repentance sure to follow it. Epictetus duration imagination ideas Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them Epictetus inspiration men life We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them. Epictetus inspiration spiritual attitude Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire. Epictetus philosophical discipline military No great thing is created suddenly. Epictetus philosophical perseverance inspirational-life No man is able to make progress when he is wavering between opposite things. Epictetus progress opposites men Law intends indeed to do service to human life, but it is not able when men do not choose to accept her services; for it is only in those who are obedient to her that she displays her special virtue. Epictetus special law men It is impossible that happiness, and yearning for what is not present, should ever be united. Epictetus wisdom should impossible If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles, sit down and turn them over quietly in your mind: but never dub yourself a Philosopher. Epictetus down-and principles mind
