10 Stoic Quotes on Embracing Change

  • “Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.”

    — Epictetus
  • “Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.”

    — Epictetus
  • “It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”

    — Epictetus
  • “Circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they do. People behave as they are. Embrace what you actually get.”

    — Epictetus
  • “We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.”

    — Epictetus
  • “Don’t seek that all that comes about should come about as you wish, but wish that everything that comes about should come about just as it does, and then you’ll have a calm and happy life.”

    — Epictetus
  • “Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.”

    — Epictetus
  • “Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.”

    — Epictetus
  • “Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen: this is the path to peace.”

    — Epictetus
  • “No great thing is created suddenly.”

    — Epictetus