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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.

Epictetus

Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
EPICTETUS

Control Hold Inspirational Positive Stop True
Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
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Demand Happen Inspirational Satisfaction
Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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Attention Belong Business Concern Focus True
The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Going Man Philosophy Wisdom World
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
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Beyong Cease Happiness Let Go Power Worry
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
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
We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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Character Control Effort Impression
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
Don’t be concerned with other people’s impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
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Alone Appearance Impression Life People Strength
If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
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Freedom Inspirational Let Go Life Live Sorrow
No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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Finding Healing Inspirational Person Yourself
Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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Breathe Conservation Eat God Preference Thinking
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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Impossible Learning Man Thinking
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
I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
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Attitude Damage Laugh Live Thinking

Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.

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