You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
EPICTETUSWhat concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
More Epictetus Quotes
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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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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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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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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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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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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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
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We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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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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