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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

Epictetus

People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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Disturb Human Nature Imagination People
All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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Acceptance Heaven Life Man Religion Tolerance
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
Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
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Demand Happen Inspirational Satisfaction
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
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
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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Goodness Learning Manner Speak
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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Believe Motivational Yourself
To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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Deed Inspirational Life Live Virtue
Books are the training weights of the mind.
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Book Mind One Liner Training Weight
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
Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
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Endure Introduce Life Opportunity Resource Strength
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
We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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Event Judgement Life Live Suffering
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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Adversity Difficult Finding Friendship Prosperity
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

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

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