If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
EPICTETUSIn prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
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Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
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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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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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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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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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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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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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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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