Quotes About Perspective

Whenever anyone criticizes or wrongs you, remember that they are only doing or saying what they think is right. They cannot be guided by your views, only their own; so if their views are wrong, they are the ones who suffer insofar as they are misguided.

Keep the prospect of death, exile and all such apparent tragedies before you every day – especially death – and you will never have an abject thought, or desire anything to excess.

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

No one is ever unhappy because of someone else.

You ought to realize, you take up very little space in the world as a whole—your body, that is; in reason, however, you yield to no one, not even to the gods, because reason is not measured in size but sense. So why not care for that side of you, where you and the gods are equals?

Never say about anything, I have lost it, but only I have given it back.

Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinions about the things:

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

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.

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

He wants what he cannot have, and does not want what he can't refuse — and isn't aware of it. He doesn't know the difference between his own possessions and others'. Because, if he did, he would never be thwarted of disappointed. Or nervous.

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. . . .

But to be hanged—is that not unendurable? Even so, when a man feels that it is reasonable, he goes off and hangs himself.

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.

Why are you pestering me, pal? My own evils are enough for me.

Who are these people whose admiration you seek? Aren't they the ones you are used to describing as mad? Well, then, is that what you want – to be admired by lunatics?

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.

understand that every event is indifferent and nothing to you, of whatever sort it may be; for it will be in your power to make a right use of it, and this no one can hinder.

Is you naturally entitled, then, to a good father? No, only to a father. Is

Every circumstance comes with two handles, which one of which you can hold it, while with the other conditions are insupportable.