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Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.

Epictetus

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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Content Fools Improvement Stupid Want
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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Goals Influence Lie Life Please Purpose
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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Aspire Extraordinary Inspirational Time Vague Wise
Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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Account Giving Inspirational Life Positive
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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Company Friendship Key People Presence
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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Impossible Learning Man Thinking
No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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Business Entrepreneur Giving Inspirational Patience Time
If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
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Defeat Fear Gain Seek Truth Victory
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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Concern Creation Giving Motivational Watch Work
We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.
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Avoid Body Pralysis Soul Trouble
The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Going Man Philosophy Wisdom World
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Attitude Concern Human Nature People Thinking
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Attitude Concern Human Nature People Thinking
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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Death Depression Fear Love Pain
Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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Beginning Clear Freedom Happiness Principle Understand
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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Angry Disturb Master Permit Person Yourself

Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.

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