Epictetus Quotes

Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they alone are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices me wherever I am or whatever I do.

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• I realised that the political context had got worse since the 2010 World Cup. I tried to ignore it but I wanted, as a national coach - you may call this Utopia - to make Catalans and Basques feel good about supporting a Spanish side... to unite even the most sectarian and nationalist.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • World
  • Good
  • May

• A lot of people don't want to deal with the effort needed to secure your bitcoins. That's why we started to build Gemini, which is a U.S.-based exchange with compliance - it's NASDAQ, E-Trade and DTC built into one.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • People
  • Why
  • Want

• The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Life
  • Up
  • Want

• I was the first person in the world to audition for 'The Hobbit'. The casting director told me that when I went in. That's a lot of pressure, isn't it? The first person in the world.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • World
  • Me
  • Pressure

• Yes," he said. "I am sure. I double-checked everything after you went home yesterday. I even made a few improvements, just in case." The first part of that reassured her. The second part... not so much. "What kind of improvements?" "Oh, nothing, really. Mostly just streamlining. You really did very well; I certainly don't want you to think that I am one of those people who has to be in control all the- Oh, well, I suppose that's actually true- I do have to be in control all the time. But only because I am in charge, of course.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • People
  • Time
  • Home

• There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Soul
  • Death
  • Universe

• I think there are two sides of the coin. On one hand, it can be challenging to access different parts of yourself, and you kind of have to put yourself back into reality when you're done with the job. But I think it's also really cool to have the ability to try on being different people and to explore some parts of yourself because you get to know yourself better. You get to know parts of yourself that you haven't met before. I think that's something that I've been learning more recently.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • People
  • Different
  • Done

• You can use up all the slums for new development. In all the cities of the world, there are large areas of these. Also, you can avoid the spread of these silly suburban houses. Chicago has thousands of them all over the place.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Up
  • World
  • Place

• I'm dragging the audience to hell with me

  

  Jerry Lee Lewis
  • Audience
  • Hell

• Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write.

  

  Jincy Willett
  • Writing
  • Happens
  • Sentences

• Whatever you do, don’t wake up at 65 years old and think about what you should have done with your life.

  

  George Clooney
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Years

• You can't just plain die. You got to do it by the book.

  

  Richard McKenna
  • Book
  • Dies

• Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own.

  

  Sallust
  • Property
  • Greedy
  • Extravagant

• Did I say "republic?" By God, yes, I said "republic!" Long live the glorious republic of the United States of America. Damn democracy. It is a fraudulent term used, often by ignorant persons but no less often by intellectual fakers, to describe an infamous mixture of socialism, graft, confiscation of property and denial of personal rights to individuals whose virtuous principles make them offensive.

  

  Westbrook Pegler
  • Democracy
  • Persons
  • Individual

• Let us have no ranting tragedies. Too many charactersNot a tolerable woman's part in the play.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Play
  • Part
  • Tragedies

• This is the simplest of all thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god.

  

  Stevie Smith
  • Simplest

• Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they alone are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices me wherever I am or whatever I do.

  

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