Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
EPICTETUSIt’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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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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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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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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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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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.
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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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Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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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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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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