Epictetus Happiness Quotes

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.

- Epictetus

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

Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much wisdom, to no one.

- Epictetus

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

- Epictetus

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

- Epictetus

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

- Epictetus

Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.

- Epictetus

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.

- Epictetus

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

- Epictetus

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

- Epictetus

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

- Epictetus

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

- Margaret Lee Runbeck

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

- Agnes Repplier

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

- John Lennon

Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

- Abraham Lincoln

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own

- Robert A. Heinlein

Happiness is a function of accepting what is.

- Werner Erhard

The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.

- Neil Gaiman

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow

- Swedish Proverb

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

- Martha Washington