Quotes about Mindfulness
For your part, do not adopt any air of superiority. Mind your own business, keep busy with the work you are best suited for, and play well the part the Author has given you.
- Epictetus
At feasts, remember that you are entertaining two guests, body and soul. What you give to the body, you presently lose; what you give to the soul, you keep for ever.
- Epictetus
greatness of reason is measured not by height or length, but by the quality of its judgements.
- Epictetus
If you are kissing your child or wife, say that it is a human being whom you are kissing, for when the wife or child dies, you will not be disturbed.
- Epictetus
Care for your body as needed, but put your main energies and efforts into cultivating your mind.
- Epictetus
So in the field of assent you cannot be hindered or obstructed. 'Evidently.
- Epictetus
But what says Socrates?—One man finds pleasure in improving his land, another his horses. My pleasure lies in seeing that I myself grow better day by day.
- Epictetus
The soul is like a bowl of water, with the soul's impressions like the rays of light that strike the water. Now, if the water is disturbed, the light appears to be disturbed together with it — though of course it is not.
- Epictetus
It is for you to arrange your priorities; but whatever you decide to do, don't do it resentfully, as if you were being imposed on.
- Epictetus
End the habit of despising things that are not within your power
- Epictetus
When you attend the games, do not get emotionally invested in the rivalry. Wish only that the best team or athlete wins. Avoid the extremes of elation at a win and devastation at a loss.
- Epictetus
No, I cannot escape death, but at least I can escape the fear of it — or do I have to die moaning and groaning too?
- Epictetus