Epictetus Quotes

In order to please others, we loose our hold on our life's purpose.

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• Humor is a wonderful way to deal with our suffering because if we can laugh at our troubles, we can feel better. Thich Nhat Hanh is a special man who has helped millions with their suffering with incredible technique. But he doesn't know real suffering, because he has not dated as much as I have.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Real
  • Man
  • Suffering

• You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Up
  • Light
  • Control

• I am a hopeless romantic who falls in lust and gets in trouble. I love my work and am very productive, yet I always find time to play.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Time
  • Work
  • Love

• The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends despite my ineptitude at team sports and my preference for reading.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Friends
  • Interesting
  • Small

• I think Alison Krauss is one of the most amazing singers ever. As a songwriter - this is gonna sound cheesy - I love Randy Newman. And my mom passed on a love of Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell. At one point I was so into the Indigo Girls, just like I was so into the Dixie Chicks, those female harmonies.

  

  Cam
  • Love
  • Amazing
  • Mom

• The least we desire from the institutions of the free world, and especially the US and the countries of the European Union, is that they appreciate our struggle for freedom. We want them to discharge their responsibilities towards vulnerable people and support them in the face of the cruelty of rulers who continue to kill.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • People
  • World
  • Free

• Sei giorni me n'andai matina e seraPer balze e per pendici orride e strane,Dove non via, dove sentier non era.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• Liza, in terms of sheer talent, just oozes with it. She has sheer energy and stamina, which she gets across the stage, and the way she delivers herself to the public is a good influence. There is a lot to learn from her

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Good
  • She
  • Energy

• One of the reasons I never went into pro football was because I wanted my kids to grow up around an academic environment. And that's exactly what we did.

  

  Ara Parseghian
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Football

• It's not about how skinny you are or how much money or how many diamonds you have - that's the fluff that people sometimes look at as being the main thing. It's about understanding that the things that make you fabulous are all inside of you.

  

  Kimora Lee Simmons
  • People
  • Money
  • Understanding

• When I was a kid, I had to try a lot of pyrotechnics just so people would know who I was.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • People

• As far as I'm concerned, all politicians are fake people.

  

  Neil Sedaka
  • People
  • Fake

• First of all; Frank was the BOSS. We didn't question any of his motives or decisions at the time.

  

  James Carl Inkanish, Jr.
  • Time
  • Question
  • Boss

• Life is cold. People stay warm through the intimacy of a story.

  

  James Altucher
  • People
  • Life
  • Cold

• I should have been an abortion. The only reason I wasn't was that my father was a Christian.

  

  Neko Case
  • Father
  • Christian

• I love to read things that I'm sure won't make a movie.

  

  Amy Pascal
  • Movie

• I am terrified of sharks, so I don't surf!

  

  Janel Parrish

• If you don't like carbon, if you want to be zero carbon, then you might as well shoot yourself, dry up and blow away because you are carbon.

  

  William McDonough
  • Blow
  • Might
  • Dry

• I got good offers from Bollywood because I can speak Hindi very well.

  

  R. Madhavan
  • Speak
  • Offers
  • Bollywood

• Funniest thing about love, how it shakes loose when no one's looking. How the dark helps it along. Maybe that's why we dug caves so much, way back when.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Love
  • Looking
  • No One

• Put him in there and chain him up," he ordered curtly. "Yes, that chain, you fool - do you see any other chain in that cell? Peaceable Sherwood? I'm tired of hearing about Peaceable Sherwood! Turn him loose in the cell for the night. - Which one of you said 'Where'll he be by morning?' Where does he look like he's going to be by morning, I ask you - a hundred and fifty miles away?" I was, to be exact, only seven and a half miles away by morning.

  

  Elizabeth Marie Pope
  • Morning
  • Miles
  • Chain

• It is right, or absolute right, that an individual should develop the powers that are in him. He may be said to have a "natural right" to become what he is capable of becoming. This is his only natural right.

  

  William Ernest Hocking
  • Individual
  • Natural
  • Capable

• In order to please others, we loose our hold on our life's purpose.

  

  Epictetus
  • Loose
  • In Order
  • Life's Purpose