Epictetus

You are not your body and hair-style, but your capacity for choosing well. If your choices are beautiful, so too will you be. -Epictetus

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
-Epictetus

In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
-Epictetus

Deliberate much before saying or doing anything, for you will not have the power of recalling what is said or done.
-Epictetus

Make the best of what is in our power, and take the rest as it occurs.
-Epictetus

Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
-Epictetus

It isn’t the events themselves that disturb people, but only their judgements about them.
-Epictetus

No man is free who is not master of himself.
-Epictetus

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

Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
-Epictetus