The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
EPICTETUSA ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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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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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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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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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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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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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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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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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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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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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.
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