What we feel is affected by how we think and what we do. This gives us power to change how we feel for the better. If it was easy, you would have done it already. Fortunately, clinical experience is a great guide to what specific changes can lead to the best therapy outcomes.

------------------------------------------------------------ Epictetus “Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” ― Epictetus tags: contentment, happiness, money, wealth 1279 likes Like “Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.” ― Epictetus tags: philosophers, philosophy 1239 likes Like “Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.” ― Epictetus, The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness tags: be-honest, grow, learn-to-think, philosophy, understand-what-you-read, wisdom 870 likes Like “Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems” ― Epictetus tags: anxiety, mankind 842 likes Like “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will. ” ― Epictetus tags: happiness, way-to-be 838 likes Like “It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” ― Epictetus 705 likes Like “First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.” ― Epictetus tags: motivational 664 likes Like “If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.” ― Epictetus 622 likes Like “Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.” ― Epictetus 617 likes Like “How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself and in no instance bypass the discriminations of reason? You have been given the principles that you ought to endorse, and you have endorsed them. What kind of teacher, then, are you still waiting for in order to refer your self-improvement to him? You are no longer a boy, but a full-grown man. If you are careless and lazy now and keep putting things off and always deferring the day after which you will attend to yourself, you will not notice that you are making no progress, but you will live and die as someone quite ordinary. From now on, then, resolve to live as a grown-up who is making progress, and make whatever you think best a law that you never set aside. And whenever you encounter anything that is difficult or pleasurable, or highly or lowly regarded, remember that the contest is now: you are at the Olympic Games, you cannot wait any longer, and that your progress is wrecked or preserved by a single day and a single event. That is how Socrates fulfilled himself by attending to nothing except reason in everything he encountered. And you, although you are not yet a Socrates, should live as someone who at least wants to be a Socrates.” ― Epictetus (From Manual 51) tags: philosophy-of-life 610 likes Like “It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.” ― Epictetus 561 likes Like “The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.” ― Epictetus 554 likes Like “He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.” ― Epictetus tags: self-deprecating, self-deprecating-humor, self-deprecation 531 likes Like “Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.” ― Epictetus tags: control, freedom, goal, happiness, life, philosophy 499 likes Like “Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.” ― Epictetus 449 likes Like “People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.” ― Epictetus, Enchiridion 394 likes Like “Only the educated are free.” ― Epictetus tags: education 348 likes Like “Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.” ― Epictetus 346 likes Like “Remember, it is not enough to be hit or insulted to be harmed, you must believe that you are being harmed. If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation. Which is why it is essential that we not respond impulsively to impressions; take a moment before reacting, and you will find it easier to maintain control.” ― Epictetus, The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness tags: philosophy, self-control, stoic, stoicism 341 likes Like “You are a little soul carrying around a corpse” ― Epictetus 293 likes Like “First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.” ― Epictetus 271 likes Like “No man is free who is not master of himself.” ― Epictetus tags: inspirational 267 likes Like “I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.” ― Epictetus 265 likes Like “To accuse others for one's own misfortune is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.” ― Epictetus 259 likes Like “Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.” ― Epictetus, The Golden Sayings of Epictetus 243 likes Like “He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.” ― Epictetus 242 likes Like “Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.” ― Epictetus 237 likes Like “Now is the time to get serious about living your ideals. How long can you afford to put off who you really want to be? Your nobler self cannot wait any longer. Put your principles into practice – now. Stop the excuses and the procrastination. This is your life! You aren’t a child anymore. The sooner you set yourself to your spiritual program, the happier you will be. The longer you wait, the more you’ll be vulnerable to mediocrity and feel filled with shame and regret, because you know you are capable of better. From this instant on, vow to stop disappointing yourself. Separate yourself from the mob. Decide to be extraordinary and do what you need to do – now.” ― Epictetus, The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness tags: motivational, procrastination 236 likes Like “Seek not the good in external things;seek it in yourselves.” ― Epictetus 232 likes Like « previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … 39 40 next » All Quotes | Add A Quote BOOKS BY EPICTETUS How to Be Free: An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers) -----------------------------------------

What we feel is affected by how we think and what we do. This gives us power to change how we feel for the better. If it was easy, you would have done it already. Fortunately, clinical experience is a great guide to what specific changes can lead to the best therapy outcomes.

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What we feel is affected by how we think and what we do. This gives us power to change how we feel for the better. If it was easy, you would have done it already. Fortunately, clinical experience is a great guide to what specific changes can lead to the best therapy outcomes.What we feel is affected by how we think and what we do. This gives us power to change how we feel for the better. If it was easy, you would have done it already. Fortunately, clinical experience is a great guide to what specific changes can lead to the best therapy outcomes.What we feel is affected by how we think and what we do. This gives us power to change how we feel for the better. If it was easy, you would have done it already. Fortunately, clinical experience is a great guide to what specific changes can lead to the best therapy outcomes.

What we feel is affected by how we think and what we do. This gives us power to change how we feel for the better. If it was easy, you would have done it already. Fortunately, clinical experience is a great guide to what specific changes can lead to the best therapy outcomes.

What we feel is affected by how we think and what we do. This gives us power to change how we feel for the better. If it was easy, you would have done it already. Fortunately, clinical experience is a great guide to what specific changes can lead to the best therapy outcomes.