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Epictetus, Handbook 1.5So practice, from this moment, saying to every harsh impression: “You are an impression, and not at all the thing you appear to be.” Then examine it and test it by the standards you have – first and above all by this one: does it concern what is up to us, or what is not up to us?Epictetus, Handbook 8Do not demand that things happen as you wish. Wish them to happen as they do happen, and your life will flow well.Epictetus, Handbook 51.2Right now, then, demand of yourself that you live as a mature person, as one making progress. And let everything that appears best to you be an unbreakable law.

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