When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
EPICTETUSMan is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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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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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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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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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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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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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
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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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Only the educated are free.
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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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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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