Difficulty shows what men are.
EPICTETUSIt is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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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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Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.
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Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
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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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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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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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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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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.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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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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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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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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