"If you do not like something, change it. If you cannot change it, change the way you think about it."
Source not yet traced to a specific passage, so treat the exact wording as unverified. See disputed and misattributed quotes.
Not a Stoic. Mary Engelbreit is classed as Contemplative & Other: Voices from outside the Greco-Roman tradition, included here for reflection. These are not Stoic in origin.
More from the Contemplative & Other collection
- "Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards."
- "If you cannot explain something in a simple way, you do not understand it well enough."
- "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."
- "Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it."
- "Knowledge is limited; imagination involves the world."