Epictetus Quotes
It is impossible that happiness, and yearning for what is not present, should ever be united.Epictetus
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.
Gabrielle Zevin -
In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.
Ulrich Beck -
Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -
Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness. It's hard to see someone with a 'perfect' body and be like, 'Why can't I be like her?' But that person was born to be who she is, and you're born to be who you are.
Sabrina Carpenter -
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
Immanuel Kant
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My works are an imitation of my own past and present.
Barbara Hepworth -
Most people don't really like to pose. It is difficult to get them to be present and relaxed under this kind of molecular scrutiny. I want them to understand I'm not simply painting them: I am painting them within a precise moment in time, as a shadow moves across their eyebrows. Then it is gone. The moment is over.
Taylor Negron -
The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
J. G. Ballard -
Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
Victor Hugo -
'American Horror Story' is dark, so you shouldn't be expecting too much happiness.
Taissa Farmiga -
Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.
Wayne Dyer
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My University of Management will create managers who will float in happiness, success and fulfillment.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
Don't take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves.
Halle Berry -
The future is no more uncertain than the present.
Walt Whitman -
Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.
J. Donald Walters -
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
C. S. Lewis -
The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
Abraham Maslow
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All of them had been so tested and retested that they had acquired considerable skill in answering test questions the way the examiners wanted them answered.
Frederik Pohl -
'It's something that you dream about, but Milli Vanilli got a Grammy. So it's hard to decide whether you're happy or not.'
Brandon Flowers The Killers -
Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.
Euripides -
Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never refrained from any folly of which he was capable. The End.
Bertrand Russell -
When Kate Spade New York told me that we would be going to Dubai to celebrate the opening of two stores there, I was so thrilled - Dubai has been a place that I have wanted to visit for quite some time. There was something mysterious about Dubai that I wanted to see for myself so I could draw my own conclusions.
Brad Goreski -
It is impossible that happiness, and yearning for what is not present, should ever be united.
Epictetus