Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
EPICTETUSEvery 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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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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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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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
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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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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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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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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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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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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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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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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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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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