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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
— Epictetus
Enchiridion, Chapter I
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10 quotes on acceptance from the Stoic tradition.
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
Enchiridion, Chapter I
Don't demand that things happen as you wish, but wish that they happen as they do happen, and you will go on well.
Enchiridion, Chapter 8
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
Discourses, Book 1
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, and do so with all your heart.
Meditations, Book VI
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Meditations, Book 6
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
Meditations, Book 9
How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.
Meditations, Book 12
Objective judgment, now, at this very moment. Unselfish action, now, at this very moment. Willing acceptance—now, at this very moment—of all external events. That’s all you need.
Meditations, Book 9
Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
Meditations, Book 8
What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.
To Marcia on Consolation