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“यह मनुष्य की बहुत ही विचित्र आदत है कि वह भविष्य की ओर देखकर ही जी सकता है और उसके अस्तित्व के सबसे कठोर क्षणों में यही उसकी मुक्ति होती है। वैसे कई बार उसे इस काम के लिए अपने मन को ज़बरन झोंकना भी पड़ता है।”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Jeevan Ke Arth Ki Talaash Me Manushya

“जीवन का अर्थ दरअसल इस समय जीवन के लिए हमारे रवैये में एक बुनियादी बदलाव की ज़रूरत थी। हमें स्वयं ही सीखना था। इसके अतिरिक्त उन मायूस व निराश बंदियों को भी सिखाना था कि इससे कोई अंतर नहीं पड़ता कि हम जीवन से क्या अपेक्षा रखते हैं बल्कि देखना तो यह चाहिए कि जीवन हमसे क्या अपेक्षा रखता है। हमें जीवन से उसके अर्थ के बारे में पूछना बंद कर देना चाहिए और स्वयं को ऐसे व्यक्ति के रूप में देखना चाहिए, जिससे जीवन प्रतिदिन-प्रतिघंटे नए-नए सवाल पूछा करता है। हमारे”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Jeevan Ke Arth Ki Talaash Me Manushya

“If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.”
― Epictetus

“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
― Epictetus

“Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
― Epictetus

“Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.”
― Epictetus, The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness

“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will. ”
― Epictetus

“Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems”
― Epictetus

“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
― Epictetus

“If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.”
― Epictetus

“Any person capable of angering you becomes your master;
he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.”
― Epictetus

“The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.”
― Epictetus

“You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.”
― Epictetus

“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”
― Epictetus

“Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.”
― Epictetus

“Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.”
― Epictetus

“People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.”
― Epictetus, Enchiridion

“Only the educated are free.”
― Epictetus

“Remember, it is not enough to be hit or insulted to be harmed, you must believe that you are being harmed. If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation. Which is why it is essential that we not respond impulsively to impressions; take a moment before reacting, and you will find it easier to maintain control.”
― Epictetus, The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness

“I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.”
― Epictetus

“First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.”
― Epictetus

“To accuse others for one's own misfortune is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.”
― Epictetus

“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. ”
― Epictetus

“Most of what passes for legitimate entertainment is inferior or foolish and only caters to or exploits people's weaknesses. Avoid being one of the mob who indulges in such pastimes. Your life is too short and you have important things to do. Be discriminating about what images and ideas you permit into your mind. If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest. It is the easiest thing in the world to slide imperceptibly into vulgarity. But there's no need for that to happen if you determine not to waste your time and attention on mindless pap.”
― Epictetus, The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness

“Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.”
― Epictetus

“God has entrusted me with myself. No man is free who is not master of himself. A man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.”
― Epictetus

“It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.”
― Socrates

“Which is recorded of Socrates, that he was able both to abstain from, and to enjoy, those things which many are too weak to abstain from, and cannot enjoy without excess. But to be strong enough both to bear the one and to be sober in the other is the mark of a man who has a perfect and invincible soul.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Blushing is the color of virtue.”
― Diogenes