My favorite Epictetus quotes

Epictetus had a lot figured out a few thousand years ago... Here are a few of my favorite quotes from his writings...

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

God has entrusted me with myself.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.