Famous Quotes & Sayings

Epictetus

Now is the time to get serious about living your ideals. Once you have determined the spiritual principles you wish to exemplify, abide by these rules as if they were laws, as if it were indeed sinful to compromise them. Don't mind if others don't share your convictions. How long can you afford to put off who you really want to be? Your nobler self cannot wait any longer.

Epictetus

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Epictetus

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

Epictetus

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

Epictetus

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

Epictetus

Only the educated are free.

Epictetus

Don't demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.

Epictetus

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes 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

No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.

Epictetus

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

Epictetus

When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.

Epictetus

What is a good person? One who achieves tranquillity by having formed the habit of asking on every occasion, "what is the right thing to do now?"

Epictetus

Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.

Emily Bronte

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Emily Bronte

I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!

Emily Bronte

If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.

Emily Giffin

What appeals to you the most is the very thing that will drive you crazy

Emily Giffin

I spend the rest of the afternoon trying to explain to Zoe one of the very saddest notions in love and life: sometimes the timing is wrong--and sometimes you realize the heart of the matter way to late in the game.

Emily Giffin

But I have learned that you make your own happiness, that part of going for what you want means losing something else. And when the stakes are high, the losses can be that much greater.

Emily Dickinson

I cannot live with you, It would be life, And life is over there Behind the shelf

Emily Dickinson

I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there's a pair of us? Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog – To tell one's name – the livelong June – To an admiring Bog!

Emily Dickinson

Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea Past the houses, past the headlands Into deep eternity! Bred as we, among the mountains Can the sailor understand The divine intoxication Of the first league out from land?

Emily Dickinson

To be alive is power; existence in itself; without a further function; omnipotence.

Emily Dickinson

Nods from the Gilded pointers - Nods from the Seconds slim - Decades of Arrogance between The Dial life - And Him -

Emily Dickinson

If I shouldn't be alive When the Robins come, Give the one in Red Cravat, A Memorial crumb.

Emily Dickinson

No Life can pompless pass away - The lowliest career To the same Pageant wends its way As that exalted here -

Emily Dickinson

I took one Draught of Life - I'll tell you what I paid - Precisely an existence - The market price, they said.

Emily Dickinson

She rose to his requirement, dropped The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife.

Emily Dickinson

Best Witchcraft is Geometry To the magician's mind - His ordinary acts are feats To thinking of mankind.

Emily Dickinson

The Life we have is very great. The Life that we shall see Surpasses it, we know, because It is Infinity, But when all Space has been beheld And all Dominion shown The smallest Human Heart's extent Reduces it to none.

Emily Dickinson

Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the Culprit-Life!

Emily Dickinson

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.