13-Apr
In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our life’s purpose.
-Epictetus
In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our life’s purpose.
-Epictetus
What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
– Seneca
I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.
-Marcus Aurelius
You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
-Epictetus
It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind, the realm of your own.
-Marcus Aurelius
To make anything a habit, do it; to not make it a habit, do not do it; to unmake a habit, do something else in place of it.
-Epictetus