Epictetus Quotes About Happiness

Quotes about: Happiness

• There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

  Epictetus

  Happiness, Happy, Success

  Epictetus (2016). “The Philosophy of Epictetus: Golden Sayings and Fragments”, p.87, Courier Dover Publications

• He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

  Epictetus

  Positive, Happiness, Thank You

  Epictetus (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.48, Courier Corporation

• It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

  Epictetus

  Happiness, Moving On, Attitude

• The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Happiness, You Make Me Happy

• The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

• God has made all men to be happy.

  Epictetus

  Happiness, Men, Made

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.313, Enhanced Media Publishing

• The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

  Epictetus

  Happiness, Truth, Honesty

• Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Happiness, Confidence

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.185, Lulu.com

• Happiness is an equivalent for all troublesome things.

  Epictetus

  Happiness, Troublesome

  Epictetus (1900). “Discourses ...”

• All human beings seek the happy life, but many confuse the means - for example, wealth and status - with that life itself. This misguided focus on the means to a good life makes people get further from the happy life. The really worthwhile things are the virtuous activities that make up the happy life, not the external means that may seem to produce it.

  Epictetus

  Life, Motivational, Happiness

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