Epictetus Quotes
If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.Epictetus
Quotes to Explore
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I just heard the latest joke about my hair: 'Do you know what that is on her head? It's a steering wheel to drive the state.'
Yulia Tymoshenko -
I retweet Amnesty International tweets a lot. It isn't just, 'This person is incarcerated unjustly.' It's also, 'This person was just released.' Those are the victories we work toward, so if we don't inform people of the victories, it does become doom and gloom.
Nazanin Boniadi -
The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
Ian Mcewan -
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
If I want to tuck my son into bed and read him a story, but that means I have to take a red-eye to get to a concert - which I would never think of doing otherwise - that's just the way it is. Even if I can't hit the note that night, I got to tuck my child in!
Idina Menzel -
Jealousy is the worst trait in any person.
Adam DeVine
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
Jack Herer -
Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.
Madeleine Albright -
I do love to capture beauty in this world. And photos can last the test of time.
Nathaniel Buzolic -
As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
Adam McKay -
My father died when I was 14, and my mother juggled two jobs so she could make sure my sister and I were OK.
Irina Shayk -
To survive is to win.
Zhang Yimou
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I wrote 'Fight Song' as this declaration to believe in myself, and that is similar to what you are taught to believe in Girl Scouts. Building confidence. Building character. And above all else, being there for each other as a community.
Rachel Platten -
When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.
Maggie Wheeler -
My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.
Warren Christopher -
I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
Vikram Seth -
My favorite thing to do in a new city is find new fast food. I seek it out. I'll tweet and ask people what their favorite local place is, and if I get four or five with the same answer, then I'll check it out.
Kate Micucci -
When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
Calvin Trillin
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When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
Oscar Wilde -
Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.
Plato -
If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.
Thomas Aquinas -
Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.
Karl Jaspers -
If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.
Epictetus