What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
EPICTETUSOther people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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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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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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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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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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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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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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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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If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
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