The best place to get help is from yourself.
EPICTETUSWhat concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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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.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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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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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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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
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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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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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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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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous, even death is terrible only if we fear it.
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