It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
EPICTETUSIt takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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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 is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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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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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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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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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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Don’t demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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You become what you give your attention to. If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.
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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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