Remember that it is not he who gives abuse or blows, who insults, but the view we take of these things as insulting. When, therefore, anyone provokes you, be assured that it is your own opinion which provokes you. It is not events themselves that disturb people, but their judgments about those events. When you are troubled, remind yourself that it is not the event itself but your interpretation that causes distress.

The early years and mission

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid. First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. Don’t demand that things happen as you wish, but wish that they happen as they do happen, and you will go on well. It is not things themselves that disturb us, but our opinions about them. Remove your opinions and you are saved.

Growth, expansion, and community connection

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves. It is difficulties that show what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man.

Milestones in treatment and innovation

Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it. Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control. You are a little soul carrying around a corpse, as Epictetus said. Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.

Facing challenges in the opioid epidemic

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them. Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you. Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

Remember that it is not he who gives abuse or blows, who insults, but the view we take of these things as insulting. When, therefore, anyone provokes you, be assured that it is your own opinion which provokes you. It is not events themselves that disturb people, but their judgments about those events. When you are troubled, remind yourself that it is not the event itself but your interpretation that causes distress.

Developing housing and workforce programs

You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will. Who is your master? He who has authority over any of the things on which you have set your heart. Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it. Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control. You are a little soul carrying around a corpse, as Epictetus said. Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak. Let death and exile, and all other things which appear terrible be daily before your eyes, but chiefly death; and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

The role of compassion in clinical care

He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at. It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a servant to them. Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them. Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you. Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

Looking to the future

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly. If you want to be a writer, write. Be careful to leave your children well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant. Only the educated are free.

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them. Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you. Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.