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Books are the training weights of the mind.

Epictetus

Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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Breathe Conservation Eat God Preference Thinking
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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Attention Choose Expose Giving Self Love Yourself
Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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Consider Listen Need Philosophy Practice
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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Attitude Control Death Fear Nature Terrible
Difficulty shows what men are.
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Character Difficult Men One Liner
Books are the training weights of the mind.
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Book Mind One Liner Training Weight
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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Goodness Learning Manner Speak
To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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Deed Inspirational Life Live Virtue
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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Goals Influence Lie Life Please Purpose
We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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Character Control Effort Impression
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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Anxiety Imagination Man Problem Worry
Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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Abandonment Break Up Let Go Togetherness Worth
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Attitude Concern Human Nature People Thinking
We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.
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Avoid Body Pralysis Soul Trouble
No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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Advantage Change Happen Inspirational Matter Power
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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Attitude Insult Let Go Opinion Philosophy Strike

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