When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
EPICTETUSHe who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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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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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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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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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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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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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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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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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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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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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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