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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.

Epictetus

To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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Deed Inspirational Life Live Virtue
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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Alone Appearance Impression Life People Strength
I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
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Attitude Damage Laugh Live Thinking
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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Consist Greatness Minimalism Possession Want Wealth
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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Attention Choose Expose Giving Self Love Yourself
You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
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Concern Creation Giving Motivational Watch Work
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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Acceptance Attitude Happen Ignorance Power
The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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Difficult Motivational Pilot Reputation Skill Storm
Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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Abandonment Break Up Let Go Togetherness Worth
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Attitude Concern Human Nature People Thinking
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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Adopt Association Attitude Negative People Trouble
Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Believe Healing One Liner Recover Ruin
People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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Disturb Human Nature Imagination People
The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Going Man Philosophy Wisdom World
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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Essense Happiness Inspirational Man Philosophy Possible
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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Goals Influence Lie Life Please Purpose

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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