Epictetus Quotes

My life day in and day out is accessing my emotions and bringing them to the forefront.

I learned from my parents to do my best to not react to negative emotions. I try to think about what has happened and find the lessons that can be learned from these difficult experiences. I try to deal with these negative emotions right away because, if they stay inside, they can hurt and do a lot of damage. I release them as soon as possible so I can be free.

I tend to process emotional stuff very, very slowly.

It sounds clichéd, but I think the greatest lesson is to not take things personally.

If you're having a bad day the main thing on the mental side is realizing that I'm having a bad day and thinking about why and then just kind of re-prioritizing and saying, "I'm going to let myself have this bad day, but tomorrow I'm going to get back on track." That's pretty much it. We all have them. You do have to let yourself have them and then go within and figure out why you're having it and prevent it from happening again.

A very sensitive person in this stupid world is bound to become mad.... Only meditation can save him from becoming mad.

A lot of people would wear anger, depression or aggravation as their first layer, and they don't. They very much understand what's really important in life.

I tend to keep things that bother me clandestine... well-hidden. I'm also not very good at recognising the reasons that change my moods - they just seem to happen, which is not great for those around me.

I used to be so intensely preoccupied by unhappiness... now there are times where you might get down, but you can move on much faster now.

I just don't deal with the negativity. I can't get involved in that side of it. I don't understand it, and you can't let it take away from your life and what you are trying to do.

We are not a victim of our emotions or thoughts. We can understand our triggers and use them as tools to help us respond more objectively.

Success and failure are emotional and physiological experiences. We need to deal with them in a way that is present and calm.

As I get older, the more I don't want my life to be emotionally out of balance in the way it was in my twenties.

I'm very emotional. I do feel stuff, for better or worse.

The constant monitoring of our emotional landscape and personal interactions is a bizarre concept. But it is one that could help many people.

So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.

I try to keep away exterior events that are going to make me do something negative internally to myself.

Generally speaking, I think it's a good idea to stay conscious of any kind of energy or emotion that you're generating, whether it's at the end of a work day or just in your everyday life.

The quality of my life has changed dramatically - not the events - but the way I handle them and my priorities and my sense of drama.

I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human.

I'm just not in a place in my life where I worry about something unnecessarily.

My therapy has come from paying attention to my life.

Mindfulness can help people of any age. That's because we become what we think.

There's always going to be people saying negative and positive things. If you let all that into you, and you're always contemplating that and thinking about that, I'm sure that can get to you. I try not to do that.

Emotion is a broad spectrum and I just been to a lot of sides of my own emotions.