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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

The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
EPICTETUS

Control Expectation Inspirational Life Value
A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
EPICTETUS

Anchor Hope Inspirational Life Ride Ship
Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
EPICTETUS

Demand Happen Inspirational Satisfaction
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
EPICTETUS

Happen Hustle Motivational Philosophy Power Work Hard
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.
EPICTETUS

Avoid Body Pralysis Soul Trouble
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
EPICTETUS

Essense Happiness Inspirational Man Philosophy Possible
Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
EPICTETUS

Appearance Done Goodness Inspirational Man Sake
Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
EPICTETUS

Authentic Condition Happiness Independence Inspirational
It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
EPICTETUS

Body Cure Die Live Necessary Soul
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
EPICTETUS

Content Fools Improvement Stupid Want
We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
EPICTETUS

Character Control Effort Impression
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
EPICTETUS

Anxiety Imagination Man Problem Worry
We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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Carry Focus Greatness Inspirational Need Seed
Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
EPICTETUS

Endure Introduce Life Opportunity Resource Strength
Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
EPICTETUS

Ears Giving Hear Nature Speak Tongue
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
EPICTETUS

Company Friendship Key People Presence

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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