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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

Epictetus

When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
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Acceptance Attitude Happen Ignorance Power
Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
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Adopt Association Attitude Negative People Trouble
Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Believe Healing One Liner Recover Ruin
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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Acceptance Demand Expectation Happen Peace Possible
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Attitude Concern Human Nature People Thinking
We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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Believe Confidence Faith Inspirational Time
Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Attitude Inspirational Men Thinking Trouble
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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Beyong Cease Happiness Let Go Power Worry
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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Anxiety Imagination Man Problem Worry
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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Adversity Difficult Finding Friendship Prosperity
To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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Deed Inspirational Life Live Virtue
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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Grief Happiness Man Rejoice Satisfaction Wise
Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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Beginning Clear Freedom Happiness Principle Understand
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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Choice Consent Control Healing Hurt Inspirational
I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
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Attitude Damage Laugh Live Thinking
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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Body Cure Die Live Necessary Soul

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

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