If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation. Epictetus Self Add to Favorites Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems. Epictetus Imagination, Pessimism Add to Favorites Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me
He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at. Epictetus Happiness, Self Add to Favorites Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master. Epictetus Anger Add to Favorites Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me
There are some faults which men readily admit, but others not so readily. Epictetus Accountability Add to Favorites Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me
Be not swept off your feet by the vividness of the impression, but say, “Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me try you.” Epictetus Perception Add to Favorites Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me
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. Epictetus Awareness, Patience, Purpose Add to Favorites Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me
Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man’s task. Epictetus Awareness, Intelligence, Perception, Thinking Add to Favorites Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me
Any one thing in creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind. Epictetus Gratitude, Humility, Solitude Add to Favorites Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone. Epictetus Alone, Self-esteem Add to Favorites Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me
Lake Tahoe He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at. Epictetus Confidence, Laughter, Self-esteem Add to Favorites Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me
Death Valley National Park Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world. Epictetus Honesty, Truth Add to Favorites Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think they are. Epictetus Awareness, Thinking Add to Favorites Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me
Hawaii, Maui If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid. Epictetus Learning Add to Favorites Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me
No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen. Epictetus Action, Patience, Time, Work Add to Favorites Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me
Lake Powell The good or ill of a man lies within his own will. Epictetus Action, Self, Work Add to Favorites Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me
Bryce Canyon National Park If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase. Epictetus Anger, Habits Add to Favorites Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me
Tenaya Lake, Yosemite National Park Only the educated are free. Epictetus Education Add to Favorites Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me
Lake Tahoe Practice yourself, for heavens sake, in little things; and hence proceed to greater. Epictetus Motivation, Practice Add to Favorites Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me
Bahamas We have two ears and only one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. Epictetus Communication, Listening, Speech Add to Favorites Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me
Caracao Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public. Epictetus Character, Example, Leadership, Visualize Add to Favorites Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me
Caribbean Sea First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. Epictetus Action, Affirmation, Self-esteem, Vision Add to Favorites Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me
California, La Jolla Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else. Epictetus Habits, Practice Add to Favorites Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me
Lake Tahoe There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. Epictetus Happiness, Power, Thinking Add to Favorites Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me
Hawaii, Kula, Maui It is difficulties that show what men are. Epictetus Adversity, Misfortune Add to Favorites Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me
