Quotes of Epictetus

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Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

- Epictetus

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“ Do it big, do it right, and do it with style. ”

- Fried Astaire

“ Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice. ”

- Michael Novak

“ We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust. ”

- David Levithan

“ One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy. ”

- Alain de Botton

“ Our own selfesteem is something we can actually twist in whatever way we want. ”

- Stephen Richards

“ A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided. ”

- Anthony Robbins

“ Love shapes who you are in many ways. Its presence or absence in our youth impacts our adulthood, which impacts our future generations; the cycle has to be restarted somewhere. ”

- Hani Selim

“ Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something. ”

- E. L. Simpson

“ Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Don’t marry him. Don’t be with him. Be with me. ”

- Jenny Han

“ In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death. ”

- Anne Frank

“ The art of existence is to find a sensation of spiritual expansion that makes you larger than existence itself. ”

- Talismanist Giebra

“ Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door. ”

- Kyle Chandler

“ Love cannot be hidden. It even shines in the darkest places." ~ Carla Olson Gade, The Shadow Catcher's Daughter ”

- Carla Olson Gade

“ Love is the beauty of the soul. ”

- Augustine of Hippo

“ It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not. ”

- Andre Gide

“ When love comes like that, all you can do is surrender, to lay down your arms and submit to the will of those who would love you. For in denying it, you face only regret. ”

- Michael Kilman

“ If I envision a just, fair future, I must behave justly and fairly today. ”

- Elena Aguilar

“ Love is blind, they say–but isn’t it more that love makes us see too much? Isn’t it more that love floods our brain with sights and sounds, so that everything looks bigger, brighter, more lovely than ever before? ”

- Susan Fletcher Eve Green

“ Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena. ”

- Suzanne Collins

“ The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. ”

- Socrates

“ I love you and it’s getting worse. ”

- Joseph E. Morris

“ Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have. ”

- Franz Kafka