Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
EPICTETUSThe best place to get help is from yourself.
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It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
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It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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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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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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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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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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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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Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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