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.
EPICTETUSNothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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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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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Don’t be concerned with other people’s impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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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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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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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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