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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.

Epictetus

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
Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Control Freedom Goals Life Win Worth
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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Attention Character Giving Inspirational Ourselves
If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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Bad Believe Goodness Improvement One Liner
Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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Goodness Inspirational Life Seek Wisdom Yourself
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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Breathe Conservation Eat God Preference Thinking
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
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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Behaviour Circumstance Expectation People Understand Wisdom
Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Attitude Inspirational Men Thinking Trouble
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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Defeat Fear Gain Seek Truth Victory
Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Believe Beyond Control Freedom Happiness Win
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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Attention Choose Expose Giving Self Love Yourself
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
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
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

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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