Epictetus — 🤲 Acceptance Quote

This sounds so simple but it's genuinely life-changing. When you stop wrestling with reality, you free up so much energy for actually living.

“Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well.”

— Epictetus

This sounds so simple but it's genuinely life-changing. When you stop wrestling with reality, you free up so much energy for actually living.

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“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”

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“No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.”

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“It is not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”

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“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.”

— Epictetus