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🦉 Wisdom
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
Epictetus maps a clear path from self-definition to appropriate action.
“No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.”
— Epictetus
“It is not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
“Do not seek to have everything that happens happen as you wish, but wish for everything to happen as it actually does happen, and your life will be serene.”
“No man is free who is not master of himself.”
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”
“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”
— Simone de Beauvoir
“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”
— William Shakespeare
“Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
— Kurt Vonnegut
“You are your best thing.”
— Toni Morrison
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“I am large, I contain multitudes.”
— Walt Whitman
“Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river.”
— Jorge Luis Borges
