Epictetus Quotes

One of the greatest indicators of our own spiritual maturity is revealed in how we respond to the weaknesses, the inexperience, and the potentially offensive actions of others.

If you have knowledge and see a man weak, do not condemn him. Go to his level and help him if you can. He must grow.

I have lived a long time, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person's heart

How gentle and tender ought we to be with others who are foolish when we remember how foolish we are ourselves

If you are a strong man, very good! But do not curse others who are not strong enough for you. ...Everyone says, "Woe unto you people!!" Who says, "Woe unto me that I cannot help you?" The people are doing all right to the best of their ability and means and knowledge. Woe unto me that I cannot lift them to where I am!

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

Personally, I think humility is a prerequisite to being a truly empathic person.

I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides.

I try to be a guide for people, to make their darkness bright and to make the pathway light, and never to condemn or control or criticize.

I love helping the kids.

I mean, I try to say the right things and give the right advice. But still, I'm only a person.

The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.

I'm only going to be the way I'd want someone to react to me.

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

When you have enough understanding and compassion in you, then that amount of understanding and compassion will try to express itself in action. And your practice should help you to cultivate more understanding and compassion.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.

I always think you have to show a degree of humanity and sensitivity when you're dealing with people in extreme circumstances.

Teach my children to love! They'll learn to hate on their own.

I've learned not to be such a show-off and to have a bit more empathy with humanity. Or at least to fake that.

I feel really privileged to have gracious and merciless people with a lot of perspective and patience in my life.

I've learned a lot. Being more compassionate.

What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful.

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind.

Believe the best about people. Pray for their short comings. You are not the standard. We all need grace.