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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

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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Happen Hustle Motivational Philosophy Power Work Hard
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
It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
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Business Finish Motivational Patience Start Success
It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous, even death is terrible only if we fear it.
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Attitude Control Death Fear Nature Terrible
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
You become what you give your attention to. If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.
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Attention Choose Expose Giving Self Love Yourself
It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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Handle Happen Inspirational Matter Reaction
Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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Control Hold Inspirational Positive Stop True
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
Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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Attention Belong Business Concern Focus True
Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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Authentic Condition Happiness Independence Inspirational
Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Attitude Inspirational Men Thinking Trouble
Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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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
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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Impossible Learning Man Thinking
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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Aspiration People Regard Spiritual Superior Yourself

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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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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