The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
EPICTETUSWhen something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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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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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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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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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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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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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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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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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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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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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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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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