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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.

Epictetus

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
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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One Liner Philosophy Reality Sustain
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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Anxiety Imagination Man Problem Worry
Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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Abandonment Break Up Let Go Togetherness Worth
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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Freedom Inspirational Let Go Life Live Sorrow
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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Impossible Learning Man Thinking
If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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Book Poet Reading Writing
It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
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Abundance Die Fear Hunger Live Trouble
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
We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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Believe Confidence Faith Inspirational Time
Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Control Freedom Goals Life Win Worth
It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
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Aspire Extraordinary Inspirational Time Vague Wise
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
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
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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Aspiration People Regard Spiritual Superior Yourself
Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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Beginning Clear Freedom Happiness Principle Understand

Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.

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