By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
EpictetusMen are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.
EpictetusGive yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths.
EpictetusWho are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not these whom you are in the habit of saying that they are mad? What then? Do you wish to be admired by the mad?
Epictetus