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When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.

Epictetus

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
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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Company Friendship Key People Presence
Only the educated are free.
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Education Freedom One Liner
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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Breathe Conservation Eat God Preference Thinking
Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
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Behaviour Circumstance Expectation People Understand Wisdom
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
Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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Goodness Inspirational Life Seek Wisdom Yourself
If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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Book Poet Reading Writing
He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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Greedy Happiness Human Nature Life
Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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Arise Control Neglect Power Suffering Try
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
Do not try to seem wise to others.
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Inspirational Life One Liner Try Wise
Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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Account Giving Inspirational Life Positive
I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
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Attitude Damage Laugh Live Thinking
Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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Appearance Done Goodness Inspirational Man Sake
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

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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