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  • #1
    Epictetus
    “Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.”
    Epictetus

  • #2
    Epictetus
    “Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness”
    Epictetus

  • #3
    Epictetus
    “If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct thyself; if it be a lie, laugh at it.”
    Epictetus

  • #4
    Epictetus
    “If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself. For, it is difficult to both keep your faculty of choice in a state conformable to nature, and at the same time acquire external things. But while you are careful about the one, you must of necessity neglect the other”
    Epictetus

  • #5
    Epictetus
    “Never depend on the admiration of others. There is no strength in it. Personal merit cannot be derived from an external source. It is not to be found in your personal associations, nor can it be found in the regard of other people. It is a fact of life that other people, even people who love you, will not necessarily agree with your ideas, understand you, or share your enthusiasms. Grow up! Who cares what other people think about you!”
    Epictetus, The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness

  • #6
    Epictetus
    “Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Therefore, give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths. Remain steadfast...and one day you will build something that endures: something worthy of your potential.”
    Epictetus

  • #7
    Nikola Tesla
    “Everyone should consider his
    body as a priceless gift from
    one whom he loves above all, a
    marvelous work of art, of
    indescribable beauty, and
    mystery beyond human conception, and so delicate that
    a word, a breath, a look, nay, a
    thought may injure it.”
    Nikola Tesla

  • #8
    Epicurus
    “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
    Epicurus

  • #9
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Don't Just

    Don't just learn, experience.
    Don't just read, absorb.
    Don't just change, transform.
    Don't just relate, advocate.
    Don't just promise, prove.
    Don't just criticize, encourage.
    Don't just think, ponder.
    Don't just take, give.
    Don't just see, feel.
    Don’t just dream, do.
    Don't just hear, listen.
    Don't just talk, act.
    Don't just tell, show.
    Don't just exist, live.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #10
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Count your blessings, not your problems. Count your own blessings, not someone else's. Remember that jealousy is when you count someone else's blessings instead of your own.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #11
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Most of us must learn to love people and use things rather than loving things and using people.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #12
    Epicurus
    “He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.”
    Epicurus

  • #13
    Epicurus
    “The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.”
    Epicurus

  • #14
    Epicurus
    “Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.”
    Epicurus

  • #15
    Epicurus
    “Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.”
    Epicurus

  • #16
    Epicurus
    “He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.”
    Epicurus

  • #17
    Epicurus
    “We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.”
    Epicurus

  • #18
    Seneca
    “Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
    Lucius Annaeus Seneca

  • #19
    Seneca
    “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
    Seneca

  • #20
    Seneca
    “We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”
    Lucius Annaeus Seneca

  • #21
    Seneca
    “As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”
    Seneca

  • #22
    Seneca
    “The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject... And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages. There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them... Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced.”
    Seneca, Natural Questions

  • #23
    Seneca
    “It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.”
    Lucius Annaeus Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It

  • #24
    Seneca
    “It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. ”
    Seneca

  • #25
    Seneca
    “Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”
    Seneca

  • #26
    Seneca
    “If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.”
    Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

  • #27
    Seneca
    “Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.”
    Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

  • #28
    Seneca
    “He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.”
    Seneca

  • #29
    Seneca
    “Only time can heal what reason cannot.”
    Seneca

  • #30
    Seneca
    “If you live in harmony with nature you will never be poor; if you live according what others think, you will never be rich.”
    Seneca, Letters from a Stoic



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