Epictetus Quotes

There is no failure in life. It all depends how you take things. If you are desiring too much - you want to reach too high, and you cannot - then there is frustration and failure. But if you are not desiring anything and you are perfectly happy wherever you are, life is moment-to-moment victory.

There are things I still criticize myself heavy for. There are days I have to pick myself back up, but that, to me, is success; it's getting to both sides: physical and the spiritual, mental. Just peace. Peace of mind.

The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.

A man must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him.

Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

I'm a simple kind of guy, so I just envision myself being happy.

You find happiness where you find it.

I never want to be anything more than I am; what I don't have, I don't need.

I hate to sound blase about it, but literary status is not important to me. Being happy is important to me.

Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.

Whatever state you find yourself in, you're supposed to be content there.

I don't need much to be happy.

The thing to do is to build a fortress within yourself.

When you acquire enough inner peace and feel really positive about yourself, it's almost impossible for you to be controlled and manipulated by anybody else.

What other people think of me is none of my business. Sometimes, it hurts my feelings, but I have to just keep going.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

The most satisfying project you will ever undertake-and a mark of a complete human being-is to discover how to build a sense of happiness that no one can take away from you.

Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom.

The ultimate definition of success is: you could lose everything that you have and truly be okay with it. Your happiness isn't based on external factors.

it's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.

When things are difficult, smile by faith. Don't wait until you feel better.

You've only mastered the storm you can sleep through.

It takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life.

I'm quite content: although what I'm doing is far from being as I should like, I am complemented often enough all the same.