The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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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.
More Epictetus Quotes
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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You become what you give your attention to. If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.
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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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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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Only the educated are free.
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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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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