Epictetus Quotes

Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind.

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• Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Life
  • Art
  • Extraordinary

• At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Mother

• My grandfather allowed as how I might even live long enough to see a Mars landing. I haven't, of course, except in fiction, including my own, and strongly doubt that I ever will.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • Long
  • Live
  • Doubt

• I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Know
  • Never
  • Going

• I remember when I first came to Liverpool, Pepe Reina helped with everything, and he made it easy for me. When I was Atletico Madrid captain, I tried to help everyone. These are the basics in football: you need to create an atmosphere and try to create a group of friends. It's not easy, and it doesn't always happen, but you have to try.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • Help

• I am so proud of being a Paralympian because I think the Games are a very good platform for disabled persons to perform themselves. Within the Paralympics movement, it's not just talk about excellence; it's not just talk about the competition. It's also talk about the equality and how your world accepts those disabled people.

  

  Yu Chui Yee
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Music
  • Songs
  • Playing

• People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • People
  • Succeed
  • Possible

• The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Judge
  • Bible
  • Our Lives

• My hair was so much a part of my personality and all my photo shoots. I hid behind my hair. And then, I just decided I was okay with myself. To have short hair and really show my face is even more revealing than anything. It's a statement - not to everyone else, more to myself. I'm just ready to get out from behind my hair and be myself.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Myself
  • Hair
  • Personality

• Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Children
  • See
  • Loving

• One time I went into a restroom and a girl followed me in. I signed an autograph for her in the sink. It was pretty funny because she was in a guy's restroom and she wasn't embarrassed at all.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Time
  • She
  • Guy

• It's not my ambition to be a big star.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Star
  • Ambition
  • Big

• I personally approve all the shoes that go into production, and I have a level of involvement with the factories that other people don't have.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • People
  • Shoes
  • Involvement

• I have a naive outlook on life. That's who I am.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Life
  • Naive
  • Outlook

• Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • World
  • Rest
  • Attitude

• Afraid no, I wasn't afraid but it was an unusual thing, it was an unusual feeling. It was an unusual atmosphere for me having grown up in this country and, and, and never seeing anything like that.

  

  Ralph Boston
  • Country
  • Feeling
  • Afraid

• I like football, but I think this is a very personal matter. I don't see any negatives for some Russian rich man to buy a football club.

  

  Viktor Vekselberg
  • Man
  • Football
  • Rich

• In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind - in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• Sit with those who love Allah, for that enlightens the mind.

  

  Umar
  • Mind
  • Inspiring
  • Enlightening

• You know what I just realized? Jack Black...Jack White! points to Jack White

  

  Jack Black
  • Black

• We get twitted now and then on how we made this country. Well, we took the whole business, of course. It's not just that corner that we took from Mexico. When we got it all together, we got a very shapely country-the best continental cut in all the world, between the two oceans and in the right temperature zone.

  

  Robert Frost
  • World
  • Country
  • Business

• I happened to be one of those guys who doesn't play much golf.

  

  John McEnroe
  • Golf

• Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind.

  

  Epictetus
  • Mind
  • Humble