Quotes About Attitude

It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.

Your happiness depends on three things, all of which are within your power: your will, your ideas concerning the events in which you are involved, and the use you make of your ideas.

Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen: this is the path to peace.

We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.

Sickness is a problem for the body, not the mind — unless the mind decides that it is a problem. Lameness, too, is the body's problem, not the mind's. Say this to yourself whatever the circumstance and you will find without fail that the problem pertains to something else, not to you.

Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

What concerns me is not the way things are, but the way people think things are.

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

Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives to them.

It is not events that disturb people, it is their judgements concerning them.

Circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they do. People behave as they are. Embrace what you actually get.

Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they alone are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices me wherever I am or whatever I do.

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

No one can steal your peace of mind unless you let them.

Disease is an impediment to the body, but not to the will, unless the will itself chooses. Lameness is an impediment to the leg, but not to the will. And add this reflection on the occasion of everything that happens; for you will find it an impediment to something else, but not to yourself.

I must die; so must I die groaning too?

Disease is an impediment to the body, but not to the will, unless the will itself chooses. Lameness is an impediment to the leg, but not to the will. And add this reflection on the occasion of everything that happens; for you will find it an impediment to something else, but not to yourself. X

What upsets people is not things themselves but their judgements about these things.

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. . . .

It isn't death, pain, exile or anything else you care to mention that accounts for the way we act, only our opinion about death, pain and the rest.

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.

Do not wish that all things will go well with you, but that you will go well with all things.