The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
EPICTETUSWhat concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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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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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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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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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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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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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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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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It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
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