Epictetus Quotes

What disturbs people's minds are not events but their judgments on events.

What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Our perspectives on situations act like a lens through which we view the world.

Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.

'Darkness' is a subjective word; it depends what your viewpoint is and how you live life.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

We see things as we are, not as they are.

Life's all about perceptions.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

Complete objectivity is not an option. We are all subjective about the way we respond to 'what is,' whether it's the people we encounter, the circumstances in our lives, or ourselves. What we can do is reduce our subjectivity - what I call 'I see, therefore it is.'

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Wherever there is a conscious mind, there is a point of view.

Reality isn't straightforward or easily accessible.

If you think there is anything in theater that objectively exists without your point of view attached, you are wrong.

How you feel is not the result of what is happening in your life-it is your interpretation of what is happening.

I know that even at moments of apparent danger, nothing is out of order or lacking, other than our own unquestioned thoughts about those moments.

Your thoughts do not create reality, but they do create your experience.

I do not deny that what happened to us is a thing worth laughing at. But it is not worth telling, for not everyone is sufficiently intelligent to be able to see things from the right point of view.

When those closest to us respond to events differently than we do, when they seem to see the same scene as part of a different play, when they say things that we could not imagine saying in the same circumstances, the ground on which we stand seems to tremble and our footing is suddenly unsure.

There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.

Truth is only a question of point of view.