Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
EPICTETUSHe is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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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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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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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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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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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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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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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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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.
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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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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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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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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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It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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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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I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
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