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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.

Epictetus

Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Control Freedom Goals Life Win Worth
Do not try to seem wise to others.
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Inspirational Life One Liner Try Wise
A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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Anchor Hope Inspirational Life Ride Ship
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Attitude Concern Human Nature People Thinking
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
EPICTETUS

Attitude Concern Human Nature People Thinking
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
EPICTETUS

Evil Laugh Speak True Yourself
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.
EPICTETUS

Carry Focus Greatness Inspirational Need Seed
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
EPICTETUS

Company Friendship Key People Presence
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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Attention Belong Business Concern Focus True
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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Anxiety Imagination Man Problem Worry
If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
EPICTETUS

Defeat Fear Gain Seek Truth Victory
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
EPICTETUS

Goodness Learning Manner Speak
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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Breathe Conservation Eat God Preference Thinking
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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Attention Choose Expose Giving Self Love Yourself
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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One Liner Philosophy Reality Sustain
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
EPICTETUS

Attitude Insult Let Go Opinion Philosophy Strike

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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