We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
EPICTETUSThe key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
More Epictetus Quotes
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
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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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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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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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When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
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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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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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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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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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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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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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