Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
EPICTETUSWhen we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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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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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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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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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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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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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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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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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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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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