Just keep in mind: the more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.
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More Quotes from Epictetus
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
Any one thing in creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.
Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.
Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so act toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth.
More on Anger
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
Anybody can become angry—that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way—that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.
If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear and violence.
Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others—it only changes yours.
No man should be angry with what is true.
