Epictetus Quotes
Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not. It is only after you have faced up to this fundamental rule and learned to distinguish between what you can and can't control that inner tranquility and outer effectiveness become possible.
Quotes to Explore
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
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There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.
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I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.
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I've never listened to an album once I've finished it. All I hear is what I should've done different. I beat myself up over it.
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When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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Don't get me wrong – I've gone to a club. But I'd much rather be with my close friends at home or a concert, or on a trip. I'll go dancing with my grandma. She likes to cut a rug!
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Life is just a set of experiences. As long as there are new experiences for me in a corporate job, I don't think I have to be an entrepreneur.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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We did every scene together, every day for four months, and it could have been a disaster, if we didn't get on, but we clicked straight away. Elijah Wood is just the nicest guy.
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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One cannot have a trade union or a democratic election without freedom of speech, freedom of association and assembly. Without a democratic election, whereby people choose and remove their rulers, there is no method of securing human rights against the state. No democracy without human rights, no human rights without democracy, and no trade union rights without either. That is our belief; that is our creed.
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I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.
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The seeing of things as they really are - the seeing of a proportion veiled from other eyes (together with the power of expression), is what makes a man an artist. What makes him a great artist is a high fervour of spirit, which produces a superlative, instead of a comparative, clarity of vision.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not. It is only after you have faced up to this fundamental rule and learned to distinguish between what you can and can't control that inner tranquility and outer effectiveness become possible.
