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.
EPICTETUSWe suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
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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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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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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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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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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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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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Only the educated are free.
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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