By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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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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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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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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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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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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It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish 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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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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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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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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