Quotes About Emotions

Control thy passions lest they take vengeance on thee.

Check your passions that you may not be punished by them.

Another person will not hurt you without your cooperation; you are hurt the moment you believe yourself to be.

When you are feeling upset, angry, or sad," Epictetus said, Ã¢â'¬Å"don't blame another for your state of mind. Your condition is the result of your own opinions and interpretations. . . .

If someone in the street were entrusted with your body, you would be furious. Yet you entrust your mind to anyone around who happens to insult you, and allow it to be troubled and confused. Aren't you ashamed of that?

Man is disturbed not by things, but by the views he takes of them.

Men are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things. Death

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

It isn't events themselves that disturb people, but only their judgments about them.

When you are feeling upset, angry, or sad," Epictetus said, Ã¢â'¬Å"don't blame another for your state of mind. Your condition is the result of your own opinions and interpretations. . . . "When anyone provokes you, remember that it is actually your own opinion provoking you. It is not the person who insults or attacks you who torments your mind, but the view you take of these things.

If someone handed your body over to a passerby, you would be annoyed. Aren't you ashamed that you hand over your mind to anyone around, for it to be upset and confused if the person insults you?

People feel disturbed not by things, but by the views they take of them.

Men are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions

It is not things that trouble us, but our judgements about things.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of things.

Nadie puede herirte si tú no lo consientes. Sólo te lastimarán si crees que has sido lastimado. De esta manera no le guardarás rencor a tu prójimo, ya que tú serás quien controle cada sensación que pueda provocarse por la actitud de este.

But until he succeeds in suppressing his lust and anxiety, how is he really free?

Is the child or wife of another dead? There is no one who would not say, "This is an accident of mortality." But if anyone's own child happens to die, it is immediately, "Alas! how wretched am I!" It should be always remembered how we are affected on hearing the same thing concerning others.

In short, if we observe, we shall find that the animal man is pained by nothing so much as by that which is irrational; and, on the contrary, attracted to nothing so much as to that which is rational.

when we love, hate or fear such things, then the people who administer them are bound to become our masters.

So what oppresses and scares us? It is our own thoughts, obviously.

Every day you should put the ideas in action that protect against attachment to externals such as individual people, places or institutions – even your own body.

Cilv?ks necieš no notikumiem, bet gan no to interpret?cijas. (Epikt?ts, 50–135.g.)

So when we are frustrated, angry or unhappy, never hold anyone except ourselves – that is, our judgements – accountable.