Epictetus Quotes
If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.
Quotes to Explore
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If your partner is angry with you, recognize that his anger is a misdirected plea for love. Your partner's simply upset because he feels something you said or did was a sign of not loving him enough.
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There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.
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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional bursts of anger. But if they did, I wouldn't be able to write my novels or paint.
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As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my anger.
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The anger and the creativity are so closely intertwined with me, and there's plenty of anger left.
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Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
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When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.
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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
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You must acquire the habits and skills of managing a small amount of money before you can have a large amount. Remember, we are creatures of habit and, therefore, the habit of managing your money is more important than the amount.
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What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
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There is freedom in forgiveness, and it's not that hard to do once you get into the habit.
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Con men look for human frailty to exploit. This is most often greed. Trump found a different vice: anger. The emotional are always the most susceptible to manipulation.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.
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The hostility between India and Pakistan has become a habit to which both the elites have become addicted. Any attempt towards a rational solution to real problems is denounced by chauvinists on both sides.
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Clothes are a kind of uniform. A nun's habit, a surgeon's scrubs, a cop's uniform. People often say that when they put on a certain uniform, they actually think of themselves differently.
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The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
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Malcolm X had a habit of scribbling notes in small pieces of paper that [Alex] Haley would surreptitiously pick up at the end of their discussions.
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It's quite hard for people to just accept that they're very contradictory.
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My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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The message of Easter is not that Jesus is alive, it is so much more. The message of Easter is that Jesus has risen!
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If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.
