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.
EPICTETUSIt is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
More Epictetus Quotes
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You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous, even death is terrible only if we fear it.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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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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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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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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It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
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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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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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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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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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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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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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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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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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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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In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.
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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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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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