Epictetus Art Of Living Quotes & Sayings

That same intense, overpowering, and all-encompassing love that you feel for your family can also be utterly terrifying. — Mark Deklin

Philosophy does not promise to secure anything external for man, otherwise it would be admitting something that lies beyond its proper subject-matter. For as the material of the carpenter is wood, and that of statuary bronze, so the subject-matter of the art of living is each person's own life. — Epictetus

I don't mind playing absolute bastards ... I just don't want to play the grouch. — Hume Cronyn

He who is discontented with what he has, and with what has been granted to him by fortune, is one who is ignorant of the art of living, but he who bears that in a noble spirit, and makes reasonable use of all that comes from it, deserves to be regarded as a good man. — Epictetus

I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun. — Salma Hayek

Henri Bergson thought the principal function of the brain was to filter out most of reality so that we could focus on the tasks of earthly life," he said. "When the filter is weakened by a powerful drug, what we see is not delusion but the truth. — William Peter Blatty

Sanctification costs to the extent of an intense narrowing of all our interests on earth and an immense broadening of all our interests in God. — Oswald Chambers

I love ghost stories, and I also have a great fondness and love for 'Quatermass,' which in many ways is the show that preceded 'Doctor Who.' 'Doctor Who' borrowed quite a bit from 'Quatermass' and probably wouldn't have existed in anything like the form we recognise today if 'Quatermass' hadn't come before it. — Neil Cross