Epictetus Quotes About Accidents

Quotes about: Accidents

• Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.

  Epictetus

  Luck, Progress, Working On Yourself

• On the occasion of every accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use.

  Epictetus

  Safety, Use, Aviation

  Epictetus (2009). “The Enchiridion, or Handbook: With A Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus”, p.220, The Floating Press

• Everything has two handles; the one soft and manageable, the other such as will not endure to be touched. If then your brother do you an injury, do not take it by the hot hard handle, by representing to yourself all the aggravating circumstances of the fact; but look rather on the soft side, and extenuate it as much as is possible, by considering the nearness of the relation, and the long friendship and familiarity between you--obligations to kindness which a single provocation ought not to dissolve. And thus you will take the accident by its manageable handle.

  Epictetus

  Brother, Kindness, Two

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