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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

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
EPICTETUS

Handle Happen Inspirational Matter Reaction
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.
EPICTETUS

Endure Introduce Life Opportunity Resource Strength
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
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.
EPICTETUS

Attitude Damage Laugh Live Thinking
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
EPICTETUS

Happen Hustle Motivational Philosophy Power Work Hard
Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
EPICTETUS

Adopt Association Attitude Negative People Trouble
Desire and happiness cannot live together.
EPICTETUS

Desire Happiness Live One Liner Togetherness
Do not try to seem wise to others.
EPICTETUS

Inspirational Life One Liner Try Wise
Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
EPICTETUS

Appearance Done Goodness Inspirational Man Sake
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
EPICTETUS

Anxiety Imagination Man Problem Worry
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
EPICTETUS

Believe Motivational Yourself
Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
EPICTETUS

Attitude Inspirational Men Thinking Trouble
In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.
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Goals Influence Lie Life Please Purpose
Don’t demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.
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Acceptance Demand Expectation Happen Peace Possible
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
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
EPICTETUS

Evil Laugh Speak True Yourself

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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