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What Epictetus Quotes Address Dealing With Anger?

2025-08-27 00:29:49 210

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Dylan

2025-08-28 17:11:14

When I want a toolbox for dealing with anger, I pick out a few lines from 'Discourses' and 'Enchiridion' and turn them into habits. First, there's 'Men are not disturbed by things, but by the views which they take of them.' That gives me the technical trick: separate the external event from my assent to an upsetting interpretation. Step two borrows the introspective move: 'When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.' Instead of composing a blistering reply, I ask myself where I share the same flaw — it humanizes the other person and cools the burn.

I also practice a small ritual: name the impression ('rude', 'cheap', 'threat'), label the emotion ('annoyed', 'hurt'), and delay response for five breaths. Over weeks, that pattern rewires me so reactions become responses. It’s not immediate perfection, but these quotes make anger intelligible and manageable, and that’s been huge in my day-to-day life.

Emma

2025-08-30 07:48:50

There's this compact Stoic gem I quote to myself these days: 'It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.' Whenever someone cuts me off in a chat or a teammate flubs a job, I mentally rewind that line and try to swap reflexive outrage for a tiny experiment. I ask: what impression did I just take as true, and what alternative interpretation could exist? Another practical Epictetus line I keep near my phone is 'Don't demand that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well.' That one has saved me from escalating small frustrations into full-blown grudges. I try quick mental reframes, a short pause, and sometimes a little compassion exercise imagining the other person’s perspective — it makes the anger evaporate faster than I used to expect.

Josie

2025-09-01 05:12:28

Some days my patience is a thin thing, and Epictetus gives me nails to mend it. I lean on 'People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them' as a quick mental reset — labeling the sting as an 'impression' helps me avoid swallowing it whole. Another compact piece of wisdom I whisper to myself is 'Don't demand that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well.' When I combine those two, I get a mini-practice: notice, reframe, breathe. If I’m honest, slipping into the practice takes reminders (a note on my mirror, a timer), but when I do it, petty anger loses its charge and I sleep better.

Lila

2025-09-02 23:49:23

I still get a little thrill when Epictetus lands a line that feels like a warm slap — in the best way. One quote that always calms my impulse to snap is 'People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.' It’s almost a checklist for that moment when heat rises: notice the impression, don’t immediately agree with it, and give yourself a beat. Practically, I take three deep breaths and ask what story I’m telling myself about the other person.

Another one I go back to when I’m stung is 'When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.' It’s deliciously subversive: instead of fueling rage, you look inward, find your own blind spots, and the insult shrinks. Over time this habit turned lots of flash anger into curiosity — why did that trigger me? — and that curiosity did more for my relationships than any perfectly timed retort ever could.

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