No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
EPICTETUSHappiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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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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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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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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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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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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In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.
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It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous, even death is terrible only if we fear it.
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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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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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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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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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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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