The best place to get help is from yourself.
EPICTETUSIf 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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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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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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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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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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Difficulty shows what men are.
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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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Only the educated are free.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
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We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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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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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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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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