The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
EPICTETUSIt is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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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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We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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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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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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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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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Only the educated are free.
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