Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
EPICTETUSMan is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
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Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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Don’t be concerned with other people’s impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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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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