Epictetus is reminding you that serenity and stability are results of your choices and judgment, not your environment.
“Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“When you arise in the moring, think of what a precious privelege it is to be alive-- to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“Concentrate every minute like a Roman— like a man— on doing what’s in front of you with precise and genuine seriousness, tenderly, willingly, with justice. And on freeing yourself from all other distractions. Yes, you can— if you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered , irritable. You see how few things you have to do to live a satisfying and reverent life? If you can manage this, that’s all even the gods can ask of you.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
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