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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.

Epictetus

Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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Account Giving Inspirational Life Positive
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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Happen Hustle Motivational Philosophy Power Work Hard
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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Impossible Learning Man Thinking
By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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Acceptance Fight Freedom Life Limitation Work
You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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Control Happiness Inspirational Life Power Secret
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
It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
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Aspire Extraordinary Inspirational Time Vague Wise
To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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Deed Inspirational Life Live Virtue
Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Believe Beyond Control Freedom Happiness Win
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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Angry Disturb Master Permit Person Yourself
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
The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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Difficult Motivational Pilot Reputation Skill Storm
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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Body Goodness Heart Inspirational Look Soul
Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Attitude Inspirational Men Thinking Trouble
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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Beyong Cease Happiness Let Go Power Worry
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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Body Cure Die Live Necessary Soul

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