Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
EPICTETUSNo man is free who is not master of himself.
More Epictetus Quotes
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.
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Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
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Don’t demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.
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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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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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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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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
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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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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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