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BulbullAfridi: " We win freedom by disregarding things that lie beyond our control."
- Epictetus
yungjuhn: If you are kissing your child or wife, say that it is a human being [a mortal] whom you are kissing, for thus when they die, you will not be disturbed. — Epictetus
Everything has an expiration dates, have fun while it last.
TimelessStoic: Our salvation and our loss is in ourselves --Epictetus
Philosophy_gd: "It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."
- Epictetus
orekixakashi: "Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it." Epictetus
akashixoreki: "He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has." Epictetus
TimelessStoic: The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. --Epictetus
akashixoreki: Another person will not hurt you without your cooperation. You are hurt the moment you believe yourself to be. –Epictetus
orekixakashi: Another person will not hurt you without your cooperation. You are hurt the moment you believe yourself to be. –Epictetus
stoicusok: A Stoic Breviary: Classical Wisdom in Daily Practice: Epictetus, Discourses 1.21.1
orekixakashi: "Don't explain your philosophy embody it." - Epictetus
ndrewspinoza: “It is impossible to learn that which one thinks one already knows” -Epictetus
akashixoreki: "Devote the rest of your life to making progress." Epictetus
heykahn: “It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”
― Epictetus
heykahn: “Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
― Epictetus
akashixoreki: "It's not things that upset us but our judgments about things." Epictetus
BotPhilosophyQ: “It's impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”
― Epictetus
akashixoreki: "The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have." Epictetus
vgsgmb: “What, for instance, does it mean to be insulted? Stand by a rock and insult it, and what have you accomplished?” — Epictetus
vgsgmb: —
“If someone responds to insult like a rock, what had the abuser gained with his incentive? If, however, he has the victim’s weakness to exploit, then his efforts are worth his while”
— Epictetus
briangongol: Read my latest: “Baby formula friendship” (on Epictetus's advice about friendship, neo-mercantilism, and answers to the baby-formula shortage)
ilya_poet: "When your doors are shut and your room is dark, you are not alone. the will of nature is within you"
-Epictetus
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“Everything in nature contains all the powers of nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff”
-Emerson
TimelessStoic: This is not the satisfaction of desire that freedom is obtained, but the destruction of desire. --Epictetus
boedybios: “If you wish to improve, be content to appear clueless or stupid in extraneous matters—don’t wish to seem knowledgeable. And if some regard you as important, distrust yourself.” - Epictetus
TimelessStoic: First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. --Epictetus
jdmorrisonok: What upsets people is not things themselves, but their judgements about these things. — Epictetus
AUF2020: "When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger." Epictetus
LifeCoachMary: "It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters." -Epictetus (Greek Philosopher)
GurgleHurdle: 8. No great thing is created suddenly. —Epictetus
WeFindLenders: Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. - Epictetus
PickleFights: "Man is not worried by real problems so
much as by his imagined anxieties about
real problems.” is said by famous philosopher Epictetus personally i think when it comes to philosophy it can never be wrong,
TopGunHexadian: “That’s why the philosophers warn us not to be satisfied with mere learning, but to add practice and then training. For as time passes we forget what we learned and end up doing the opposite, and hold opinions the opposite of what we should.” – Epictetus
stoameditation: To be sure, external things of whatever kind require skill in their use, but we must not grow attached to them; whatever they are, they should only serve for us to show how skilled we are in our handling of them.
Epictetus
keagawn: “No great thing is created suddenly”
~Epictetus
maggie_chaplin: “He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.” ~ Epictetus
NoahPollak: Friend who lives in Manhattan sends pic of this subway ad courtesy of the NYC Dept of Health. Heroin addiction -- it's empowering!
akashixoreki: "How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?" Epictetus
WhatChapter: “It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.” - Epictetus
orekixakashi: "Devote the rest of your life to making progress." Epictetus
KhulaniQoma: “Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.”
Epictetus
heavenspet1: No man is free who is not master of himself - Epictetus
orekixakashi: "It's not things that upset us but our judgments about things." Epictetus
orekixakashi: "The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have." Epictetus
alenzenmin: "When a man assents, then, to what is false, know that he had no wish to assent the false, but the false seemed to him true." Epictetus
thedaily_reader: Epictetus: You become what you give your attention to.
The daily reader: You become part of the book you read.
What book have become part of you ?
vinuckshie: Begin each day with a grateful heart ❤
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"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."
- Epictetus
GurgleHurdle: 8. No great thing is created suddenly. —Epictetus
Annette05669459: The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
Epictetus
philosopher70: Here is another new Sadler's Lectures podcast episode on a key aspect of Stoic philosophy in Epictetus' Discourses, maintaining attention or mindfulness (prosokhē)
orekixakashi: “For every challenge, remember the resources you have within you to cope with it.” — Epictetus
onerealgirl13: Person). Epictetus 1936 Winter
MotivatBt: "It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. (Epictetus)"
bimbimprakasa: "The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have." - Epictetus
orekixakashi: “Everything that you throw at me I will transform into a blessing, a boon.” — Epictetus
akashixoreki: "How long are you going to wait before you demand the best of yourself?" –Epictetus
madjek_: "Somethings are up to us, somethings are not up to us" Epictetus
orekixakashi: “It is essential that we not respond impulsively…Take a moment before reacting.” — Epictetus
SyedTaukir: The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls
forth your best.
Epictetus
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orekixakashi: “Whatever happens, I can derive some benefit from it.” — Epictetus
akashixoreki: "Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants." Epictetus
SyedTaukir: Only the educated are free.
Epictetus
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orekixakashi: Another person will not hurt you without your cooperation. You are hurt the moment you believe yourself to be. –Epictetus
Stoic_Republic: Most of what passes for legitimate entertainment is inferior or foolish and only caters to or exploits people's weaknesses...
~Epictetus
Stoic_Republic: “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."
~Epictetus
Stoic_Republic: “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.”
~Epictetus
orekixakashi: "Don't explain your philosophy embody it." - Epictetus
brainpicker: Epictetus on love and loss – the Stoic strategy for surviving heartbreak
marketin_genius: “Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself."
- Epictetus
MirMAKOfficial: Our Forces Will NEVER Shoot On Their Own People.
PERIOD. This is my مان
MinhasNajma: Waiting for IK to arrive at D Chowk
dailystoic: "Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it." Epictetus
akashixoreki: "Devote the rest of your life to making progress." Epictetus
thinkthatwaycom: Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
Epictetus
PhilosophyDose_: "It's impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows."
- Epictetus
zrvlaynaffit: “It is not things that trouble us, but our judgment about things.”- Epictetus
TimelessStoic: When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger. --Epictetus
vancemurphy: Check out this village in Somalia...
... I mean Seattle
(Also worth noting: The residents who allow this, are the ones voting for progressives pushing the fake climate crisis)
GadSaad: I heard from an emergency room physician today who is seeking my help, as he was fired for posting innocuous posts on his personal media account. Another shocking story from the annals of the decay of our societies. We are throwing it all away in parasitized ideological fervor.
MattWalshBlog: Biden had a chance to unite the country in our mourning of the lost innocent children but instead he rambled about the gun lobby, attacked Republicans, and wandered off the stage. We are being led by an incompetent, incoherent fool who also happens to be a very bad man.
realDailyWire: Border Patrol Agent Rushed Into Texas School And Killed Shooter Without Waiting For Backup
JLimHospMD: MedTwitter MD PhDs asserting ~30% of kids get Long COVID makes me worried about what's going on in academia... and selfishly for my own health when I'm elderly needing hospitalization. If I'm not demented I'll have to go thru my Open Notes charting w/ a fine tooth comb.
akashixoreki: "How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?" Epictetus
ARYNEWSOFFICIAL: Amid blockades and crackdown against party workers across the country, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) planned long march announced by former prime minister Imran Khan will start today (Wednesday).
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orekixakashi: "Devote the rest of your life to making progress." Epictetus
Philosophy_Call: “Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.”
― Epictetus
waiting_drApio: “Who then is invincible? The one who cannot be upset by anything outside their reasoned choice.”
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ANI: Japan | PM Modi has just concluded his official visit to Japan for the 4th Quad leaders summit in Tokyo, at the invitation of Japanese PM Fumio Kishida. In addition to this, PM held bilateral meetings with the US President, PMs of Japan & Australia: Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra
Sid_IRTS: Yesterday, in Cambridge, I questioned Mr. Rahul Gandhi on his statement that "India is not a nation but a Union of States". He asserted that India is not a nation but the result of negotiation between states. (His complete response will be shared once uploaded by organisers)
Dev_Fadnavis: The Global LEADer !
sgurumurthy: Left historians wrote books saying Aurangazeb didn’t raze down Hindu temples. Now they are saying we shouldn’t dig the past. If Aurangazeb didn’t raze down the temples why should they worry about the past being dug to find out what happened. ASI’s established for that
total_woke_: This is not politics, this is civilizational war.
thehawkeyex: Rahul Gandhi with an anti-India & pro-separatist leader Jeremy Corbyn in London. Why do he meet such people?
ARanganathan72: This jackass (middle) was part of the Red Action group that offered full support to IRA terrorists. He later refused to meet the victims of the IRA. He unabashedly calls Hamas and Hezbollah as his friends. He advocates for Pakistan on Kashmir.
What is Rahul Gandhi planning?
orekixakashi: “If you wish to improve, be content to appear clueless or stupid.” — Epictetus
blsanthosh: India was waiting for such moments since independence ... At last we are getting plenty of them ... “ Leading from the front “ ..
HooaFury: “Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
—Epictetus
dushyanttgautam: Leading the world.
rishibagree: A Tale of Two Prime Ministers
Dr. Manmohan Singh placed India under Fragile five.
Whereas PM Modi put India as the world's 5th largest GDP
PhilosophyOI: “What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.”
Epictetus