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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

No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
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Abundance Die Fear Hunger Live Trouble
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
By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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Acceptance Fight Freedom Life Limitation Work
Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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Moments Patience Reaction Situation Try Yourself
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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Consist Greatness Minimalism Possession Want Wealth
People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
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Body Cure Die Live Necessary Soul
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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Aspire Extraordinary Inspirational Time Vague Wise
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
We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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Event Judgement Life Live Suffering
We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.
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Avoid Body Pralysis Soul Trouble
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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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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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.

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