If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
EPICTETUSIt’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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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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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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Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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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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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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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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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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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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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
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