You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
EPICTETUSBooks are the training weights of the mind.
More Epictetus Quotes
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It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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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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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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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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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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Don’t demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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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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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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