You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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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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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
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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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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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