Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
EPICTETUSDesire and happiness cannot live together.
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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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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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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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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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Only the educated are free.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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