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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.

Epictetus

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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Endure Introduce Life Opportunity Resource Strength
Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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Harmony Inspirational Live Nature Rule
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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Body Goodness Heart Inspirational Look Soul
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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Happen Hustle Motivational Philosophy Power Work Hard
Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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Account Giving Inspirational Life Positive
We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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Believe Confidence Faith Inspirational Time
The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Going Man Philosophy Wisdom World
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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Aspire Extraordinary Inspirational Time Vague Wise
A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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Anchor Hope Inspirational Life Ride Ship
We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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Event Judgement Life Live Suffering
If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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Bad Believe Goodness Improvement One Liner
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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Behaviour Circumstance Expectation People Understand Wisdom
Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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Appearance Done Goodness Inspirational Man Sake
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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Concern Creation Giving Motivational Watch Work
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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Impossible Learning Man Thinking
Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
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Adopt Association Attitude Negative People Trouble

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.

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