Epictetus Quotes

Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us.

It's not what happens in life that bothers us. It's what we're believing about it that bothers us.

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

No-one can disappoint you, only your thoughts about them can

Life is a state of mind.

The quality of your life is determined by how you feel at any given moment.How you feel is determined by how you interpret what is happening around you,not by the the events themselves.

I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them.

No man is disturbed by things, but by his opinion about things.

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so.

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.

It's all in the mind, you know.

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

People will feel the way they feel.

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

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.

Happiness is a state of mind. It's just according to the way you look at things.

Attitudes are capable of making the same experience either pleasant or painful.

Things themselves don't hurt or hinder us. Things simply are what they are. How we view these things is another matter.People think what they will think; it is of no concern to us.

The right attitude toward any negative state begins with understanding that its only authority over you is a direct reflection of your attitude towards it.