When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
EPICTETUSIt is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
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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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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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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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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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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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