By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
EPICTETUSDesire and happiness cannot live together.
More Epictetus Quotes
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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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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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
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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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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
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When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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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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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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No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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