There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
EPICTETUSAnything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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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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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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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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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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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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