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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

He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
EPICTETUS

Greedy Happiness Human Nature Life
We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
EPICTETUS

Believe Confidence Faith Inspirational Time
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.
EPICTETUS

Attention Character Giving Inspirational Ourselves
Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
EPICTETUS

Moments Patience Reaction Situation Try Yourself
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.
EPICTETUS

Defeat Fear Gain Seek Truth Victory
If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
EPICTETUS

Freedom Inspirational Let Go Life Live Sorrow
We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
EPICTETUS

Event Judgement Life Live Suffering
People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
EPICTETUS

Disturb Human Nature Imagination People
When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
EPICTETUS

Acceptance Attitude Happen Ignorance Power
Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
EPICTETUS

Breathe Conservation Eat God Preference Thinking
Do not try to seem wise to others.
EPICTETUS

Inspirational Life One Liner Try Wise
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.
EPICTETUS

Goals Influence Lie Life Please Purpose
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
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
EPICTETUS

Death Depression Fear Love Pain
The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
EPICTETUS

Difficult Motivational Pilot Reputation Skill Storm
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

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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