Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
EPICTETUSThere is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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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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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
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We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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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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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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