Ruin and recovering are both from within.
EPICTETUSEvents do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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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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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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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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Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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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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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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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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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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