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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.

Epictetus

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
EPICTETUS

Impossible Learning Man Thinking
No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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Advantage Change Happen Inspirational Matter Power
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.
EPICTETUS

Attitude Damage Laugh Live Thinking
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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Endure Introduce Life Opportunity Resource Strength
Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
EPICTETUS

Breathe Conservation Eat God Preference Thinking
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.
EPICTETUS

Avoid Body Pralysis Soul Trouble
You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
EPICTETUS

Control Happiness Inspirational Life Power Secret
It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
EPICTETUS

Body Cure Die Live Necessary Soul
It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
EPICTETUS

Business Finish Motivational Patience Start Success
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
EPICTETUS

Consist Greatness Minimalism Possession Want Wealth
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
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
EPICTETUS

Believe Motivational Yourself
Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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Accident Achievement Improvement Inspirational Luck Progress
Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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Goodness Inspirational Life Seek Wisdom Yourself
Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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Control Hold Inspirational Positive Stop True
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
EPICTETUS

Control Expectation Inspirational Life Value

By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.

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