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👨👩👧 Family
“It is not what happens to you but how your family reacts that matters.”
Epictetus teaches that family response to events matters more than the events themselves.
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
— Epictetus
“No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.”
“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.”
“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“We are happy when we have family, we are happy when we have friends, and almost all the other things we think make us happy are actually just ways of getting more family and friends.”
— Daniel Gilbert
“You do not choose your family they are given to you but you can choose your friends”
— Desmond Tutu
“Better to be kind at home than to burn incense in a far place.”
— Unknown
“He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“The family is one of nature's masterpieces.”
— George Santayana
“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.”
