No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
EPICTETUSIt 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.
More Epictetus Quotes
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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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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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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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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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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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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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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You become what you give your attention to. If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.
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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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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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