16-Mar
You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
– Epictetus
You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
– Epictetus
Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
– Epictetus
Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
– Epictetus
We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
– Epictetus
What matters most is what sort of person you are becoming. Wise individuals care only about whom they are today and who they can be tomorrow.
– Epictetus
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
– Epictetus