Epictetus Quotes

Let come what comes, and accommodate yourself to that, whatever it is. If good mental images arise, that is fine. If bad mental images arise, that is fine, too. Look on all of it as equal, and make yourself comfortable with whatever happens.

Whatever's in front of you, you do the best you can and let it land where it lands, and then you walk away.

I can easily be lying in the gutter with someone kicking mud in my face tomorrow as easily as I can float in the clouds with angels sprinkling fairy dust in my hair. So, I make an effort to treat both success and failure equally.

If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

You can't control everything that comes to you.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

I don't have any expectations.

If it is, it is, If it's not, it's not.

You just take things as they come.

Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.

Once you accept, truly accept, that stuff will happen to you and there is nothing you can do about it, stress miraculously leaves your life.

Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more.

Not every year is going to be the same and you just kind of have to just roll with the punches.

I just think about how much worse something could be, and I'm like, 'Alright, cool, whatever.' I'm nonchalant.

I have learned to take things as they come.

I've learned since childhood that you control only the things that you can control. Everything else, let it take care of itself.

Things are constantly in flux and changing, and as crazy-making as that can be, it's also the thing that can get you through tough times - 'Well, things change.'

I have no illusions of the future. Or maybe it's all illusion. I don't know. I've always been ready for it.

You have to be ready for anything and everything and accept everything the way things are.

I accept the cards that were dealt to me.

But that's how life is. You never know how it's going to turn out, and you can't plan for everything. You just have to do your best dealing with things as they come and hope people forgive you when you make a mistake.

A warrior accepts that we can never know what will happen to us next.