Epictetus Reality Quotes

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

- 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

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

- Marcus Aurelius

On the internet, you can never be quite sure who said what

- Jessica Valenti

The frog in the well knows nothing of the sea

- Japanese Proverbs

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

- Marcel Proust

The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.

- Anonymous

Every battle first won in mind, then in reality

- Anonymous

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.

- Ram dass

The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.

- Kahlil Gibran

Time and tide wait for none.

- Anonymous