Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
EPICTETUSHave the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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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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It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous, even death is terrible only if we fear it.
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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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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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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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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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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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