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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

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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Angry Disturb Master Permit Person Yourself
The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Going Man Philosophy Wisdom World
People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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Disturb Human Nature Imagination People
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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Choice Consent Control Healing Hurt Inspirational
Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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Desire Happiness Live One Liner Togetherness
If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
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Defeat Fear Gain Seek Truth Victory
Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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Account Giving Inspirational Life Positive
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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Control Happiness Inspirational Life Power Secret
When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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Attention Character Giving Inspirational Ourselves
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
We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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Character Control Effort Impression
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
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Beyong Cease Happiness Let Go Power Worry
Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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Circumstance Deep Himself Man Mask Reveal
He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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Greedy Happiness Human Nature Life
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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Company Friendship Key People Presence
Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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Arise Control Neglect Power Suffering Try

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