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If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future. - John F. Kennedy I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. - Albert Einstein One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. - George Bernard Shaw If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. - Mother Teresa Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. - Benjamin Franklin

Nothing 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 | Ability and Achievement Quotes

Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things; and thence proceed to greater.

- Epictetus | Ability and Achievement Quotes

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 Quotes

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

- Epictetus | Philosophy Quotes

Here is the beginning of philosophy: a recognition of the conflicts between men, a search for their cause, a condemnation of mere opinion .. . and the discovery of a standard of judgement.

- Epictetus | Philosophy Quotes

Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.

- Epictetus | Silence Quotes

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

- Epictetus | Speakers and Speeches Quotes

If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.

- Epictetus | Writers and Writing Quotes

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

- Epictetus | Happiness Quotes

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 Quotes

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

- Epictetus | Happiness Quotes

Ask not that events should happen as you will, but let your will be that events should happen as they do, and you shall have peace.

- Epictetus | Acceptance Quotes

There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

- Epictetus | Acceptance Quotes

He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has.

- Epictetus | Forgiveness Quotes

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

- Epictetus | Forgiveness Quotes

No man is free who is not master of himself.

- Epictetus | Self-Control Quotes

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling that desire.

- Epictetus | Self-Control Quotes

Ruin and recovery are both from within.

- Epictetus | Self-Reliance Quotes

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

- Epictetus | Self-Reliance Quotes

God has entrusted me with myself.

- Epictetus | Self-Reliance Quotes

First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.

- Epictetus | Simplicity Quotes

It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.

- Epictetus | One Day Quotes

Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing? ... What do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you? If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken, get to work on that.

- Epictetus | One Day Quotes

No great thing 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 | Difficult Days Quotes

If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.

- Epictetus | Positive Quotes

Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing? ... What do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you?... If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken, get to work on that.

- Epictetus | Right Quotes

First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.

- Epictetus | Goals Quotes

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

- Epictetus | Anxiety about the Future Quotes

So when the crisis is upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a tough and stalwart antagonist... that you may prove a victor at the Great Games.

- Epictetus | Courage Quotes

Practice yourself in little things, and thence proceed to greater.

- Epictetus | Time Quotes

No great thing is created suddenly.

- Epictetus | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes

Difficulties are things that show what men are.

- Epictetus | Adversity Quotes

We are not troubled by things, but by the opinion which we have of things.

- Epictetus | Events Quotes

Men are not influenced by things, but by their thoughts about things.

- Epictetus | Events Quotes

On the occasion of every accident that befalls you ... inquire what power you have for turning it to use.

- Epictetus | Events Quotes

All philosophy in two words,—sustain and abstain.

- Epictetus | Appetite Quotes

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses, though he be not drunk.

- Epictetus | Drinking Quotes

Bear and forbear.

- Epictetus | Forgiveness Quotes

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

- Epictetus | Will Quotes