When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
EPICTETUSIt is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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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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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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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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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.
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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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It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous, even death is terrible only if we fear it.
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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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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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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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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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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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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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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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