No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
EPICTETUSFirst learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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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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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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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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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 more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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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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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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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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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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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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