There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
EPICTETUSIt’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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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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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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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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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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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.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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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 consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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