You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
EPICTETUSMan is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
More Epictetus Quotes
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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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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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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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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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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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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