By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
EPICTETUSDesire and happiness cannot live together.
More Epictetus Quotes
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
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Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
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It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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