Epictetus Quotes

With situations that you have no power over, there is no point in worrying about one thing or another. Why think about things that you can't control?

And no matter what, there's not one thing in this world *or* the next that we can do or hope or guess at or wish or pray that can change it or help it one iota. Because whatever is, is. That's all. And all there is now is to be ready for it, strong enough for it, whatever it may be. That's all. That's all that matters. It's all that matters because it's all that's possible.

You get to a place where you do your job, and then you dust your hands off and say, 'Okay, my job is done. Now, it's in the stars. We'll see what happens.' There's nothing I can do to affect it.

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.

Here is my secret: I don't mind what happens.

I made no more protests. What was the use of struggling against fate

Nothing can be repaired or advanced but only accepted

If something's going to happen for you, it will, you can't make it happen. And it never does happen until you're past the point where you care whether it happens or not. I guess it's for our own good that it always happens that way, because after you stop wanting things is when having them won't make you go crazy.

My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.

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

I'm open to whatever is meant to be, it will be.

If a film is not a success, then that's just the way things are. Nothing I can do can make a difference. I have stopped worrying about it.

In the world we have entered there will be many things that we can do nothing about. We should accept this state of affairs and incidentally, be grateful for it.

I have nothing to do with anything that happens to me.

I tend to let the chips fall where they may. I don't know if that's right or wrong.

Some things you can't control.

I've stopped questioning things and how things work.

There are things that are not in your control and you will never be able to control them. You've got to accept that very quickly.

I accept the cards that were dealt to me.

To accept the inevitable; neither to struggle against it nor murmur at it-this is the great lesson of life.

I think that when you let go and "throw it all away" and stop getting attached and say "whatever happens, happens", you don't invest too much in anything particular, and things work out.

I can’t fight the sun. I can only watch helplessly as it drags me into a day that I’ve been dreading for months. Katniss Everdeen

If we never arrived anywhere, it did not matter. Between that earth and that sky i felt erased, blotted out. I did not say my prayers that night: here, i felt what would be would be.

I don't mind what happens.

What does it matter, all is grace.