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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Epictetus

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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Angry Disturb Master Permit Person Yourself
The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Going Man Philosophy Wisdom World
Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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Goodness Inspirational Life Seek Wisdom Yourself
You become what you give your attention to. If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.
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Attention Choose Expose Giving Self Love Yourself
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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Defeat Fear Gain Seek Truth Victory
No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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Business Entrepreneur Giving Inspirational Patience Time
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
Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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Appointment Arrive Business Event Happen
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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Believe Motivational Yourself
Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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Circumstance Deep Himself Man Mask Reveal
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Attitude Concern Human Nature People Thinking
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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Death Depression Fear Love Pain
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
When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
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Acceptance Attitude Happen Ignorance Power
When 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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Attention Character Giving Inspirational Ourselves
The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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Difficult Motivational Pilot Reputation Skill Storm

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