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.
EPICTETUSRuin and recovering are both from within.
More Epictetus Quotes
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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.
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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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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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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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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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Only the educated are free.
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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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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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