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.
EPICTETUSRenew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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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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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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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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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
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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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Difficulty shows what men are.
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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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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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