Epictetus Quotes

I don't get upset over things I can control, because if I can control them there's no sense in getting upset. And I don't get upset over things I can't control, because if I can't control them there's no sense in getting upset.

Ain't no sense worryin' about the things you got control over, 'cause if you got control over 'em, ain't no sense worryin'. And ain't no sense worryin' about the things you don't got control over, 'cause if you don't got control over 'em, ain't no sense worryin'.

Ain't no sense worrying about the things you got control over 'cause if you got control over 'em, ain't no sense worrying. Ain't no sense worrying about the things you got no control over 'cause if you got no control over 'em, ain't no sense worrying.

I don't worry about the things I can't change.

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

I'm very happy with my life. I am what I am. I don't worry about anything that I can't control. That's a really good lesson in life.

Only a fool worries over what he can’t control.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

I can't control how people are going to react. I try not to worry about what I can't control.

I have learned to not worry about things I can't control.

I say a prayer several times a day about what I can control and what I can't control.

You do have to be patient. Control what you can control.

I surrender to it, and by surrendering, I control it.

Those who give way to great anger are like the dead:Those who are free from anger are free from death.

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.

By learning to accept the small things immediately as they happen, you can be free of having to react to things at all. You still can respond when action is needed, but you can be free, internally, of events.

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.

You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.

Don't demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.

Let the mind be cheerful but calm. Never let it run into excesses, because every excess will be followed by a reaction.

He who can preserve gentleness amid pains, and peace amid worry multitude of affairs, is almost perfect.

Don't worry about what you can't control.

Happiness or sorrow- whatever befalls you, walk on untouched, unattached.

My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the truth known.

It is not right to vex ourselves at things, for they care not about it.