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.Epictetus
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.
Barbara Cartland -
The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
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.
Samuel Johnson -
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.
Adam McKay -
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.
Orson Scott Card -
If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
Quentin Blake
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
Kat Edmonson -
I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.
Lance Bass NSYNC -
I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.
Ed Asner -
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.
Gary Allan -
When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
Gail Sheehy -
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.
Parker Stevenson
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To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
Fernando Pessoa -
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!
Zac Efron -
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.
Sam Yagan -
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
Victor Hugo -
I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.
Edmund Hillary -
It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio.
Sam Donaldson
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It's hard to write haiku. I write long, silly Indian poems.
Jack Kerouac -
As soon as I get bored, I start missing the kids, so I don't let myself get bored. I just go surfing.
Joel Parkinson -
He who advises a sick man, whose manner of life is prejudicial to health, is clearly bound first of all to change his patient's manner of life.
Plato -
As actors, we need to do our parts exactly the way they have visualised it, because if we don't, we have to keep doing it many times over.
Karan Singh Grover -
They the American authorities can't actually believe that anyone would want to not be an American,' he says. 'It's not enough to send them a letter and tell them you've become British; you've got to go to the embassy to formally renounce your US citizenship. I'm a little worried that when I do this they'll pack me off to Guantanamo.
Bill Bryson -
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.
Epictetus