Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
EPICTETUSSeek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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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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No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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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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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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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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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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