Epictetus Quotes

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their words.

I believe God is real, but I believe God calls me beyond myself to take responsibility for my life and to try top work to allow other people to be themselves and to take responsibility for their lives.

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

Let me listen to me and not to them.

When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

If you have a trust in and an expectation of your own solitude, everything that you need to know will be revealed to you.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.

Loneliness is such an omnipotent and painful threat to many persons that they have little conception of the positive values of solitude and even, at times, are frightened at the prospect of being alone.

People think being alone is a luxury, but it's crucial: Whatever you're not down with about yourself gets loud and in your face.

My biggest mentor is myself, I've always felt.

In Buddhism, you have to believe in yourself. You don't believe something external guides your life. You do it yourself.

You can't think about what other people think. You just can't. It's stupid. You've got to look inside yourself.

Life is not just about profit and loss. One should follow one's conscience and listen to the voice of one's soul.

I don't think things will lead me astray, as long as I'm tapped into myself.

When we are away from home, our only constant companion is our self.

I'm not a perfect human being by any stretch of the imagination. But there is always this little voice inside of me that keeps me where I know I need to be.