Epictetus Human nature 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

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

- Martha Washington

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Anonymous

The worst part of having a mental illness is that people expect you to behave as if you don't.

- The Joker (Arthur Fleck)

The new trend of capturing pics instead of enjoying the experience is not new. Human mind has been doing that for ages. Your mind tries to capture the experience by naming, defining, judging, comparing and categorizing everything. As a result, your soul misses the live dance of colours, sounds, shapes and sensations happening before you.

- Shunya

Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.

- Thomas Edison

Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.

- Thomas Edison

What you are will show in what you do

- Thomas Edison

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe