The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
EPICTETUSIt’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
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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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Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
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In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see 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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We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
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You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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