Epictetus Quotes

I learned when I was a kid not to worry so much about things because it's all going to work out. What will be will be.

Joy is in learning to say yes to what is and to surrender into flow with what is, even when it's what you don't want.

When you accept what is, you are grateful for whatever situation arises.

Do not strive for things occurring to occur as you wish, but wish the things occurring as they occur, and you will flow well.

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.

I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.

If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end.

Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.

I have a very positive attitude in life. My insecurity, fear and need to know about tomorrow has fortunately eased. What is going to happen will happen anyway. So why break my head over it?

Life is a lot easier when you realize that you're not in control of it all.

Surrender to life itself and you'll just be rewarded with so many things. And I've been rewarded so many times, in so many mysterious ways. So I have no reason to be disappointed with anything.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

I try to go with the flow and have faith that everything is going to work out.

The best way to survive life is - never fret over what you don't get. There's a bigger plan for you.

Accept what you cannot control.

I've learned since childhood that you control only the things that you can control. Everything else, let it take care of itself.

It is permissible to take life's blessings with both hands provided thou dost know thyself prepared in the opposite event to take them just as gladly. This applies to food and friends and kindred, to anything God gives and takes away... As long as God is satisfied do thou rest content. If he is pleased to want something else of thee, still rest content.

I think staying grounded is one of the hardest things we'll ever do in our lives. It's always back and forth. To be able to stay grounded, we need to live with open hands that everything that we have has been given to us by the creator of this universe. He can take it, and he can give it back to us. He can take some things, and he can give us new things. When a door closes, a new one is going to open.

"What is the secret of your serenity?" Said the master: "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable."

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.

If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?

I have to not take myself too seriously and I have to realise that if it is meant to be, it will be.

Acceptance means no complaining, and happiness means no complaining about the things over which you can do nothing.

To let go means to give up coercing, resisting, or struggling, in exchange for something more powerful and wholesome which comes out of allowing things to be as they are without getting caught up in your attraction to or rejection of them, in the intrinsic stickiness of wanting, of liking and disliking.

God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change.