By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
EPICTETUSNo great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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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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It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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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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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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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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Only the educated are free.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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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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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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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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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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