No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
EPICTETUSHave 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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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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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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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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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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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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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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