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.

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

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

- Anonymous

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

- Herbert George Wells

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.

- Publilius Syrus

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

- Harry Truman

It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made

- Sophocles

To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill.

- Bion

One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.

- Sophocles

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

- Bible

Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.

- William Shakespeare

Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head.

- William Shakespeare