Ruin and recovering are both from within.
EPICTETUSHave 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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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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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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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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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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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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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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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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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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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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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.
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We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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