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Ruin and recovering are both from within.

Epictetus

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
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Essense Happiness Inspirational Man Philosophy Possible
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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Demand Happen Inspirational Satisfaction
Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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Explanation Express Philosophy
The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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Happiness Liberty Life People Right Truth
He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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Greedy Happiness Human Nature Life
We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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Event Judgement Life Live Suffering
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
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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Grief Happiness Man Rejoice Satisfaction Wise
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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Attention Choose Expose Giving Self Love Yourself
It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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Deep Expectation People Reality Yourself
By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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Acceptance Fight Freedom Life Limitation Work
Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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Goodness Inspirational Life Seek Wisdom Yourself
Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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Abandonment Break Up Let Go Togetherness Worth
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
Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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Breathe Conservation Eat God Preference Thinking
Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
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Adopt Association Attitude Negative People Trouble

Ruin and recovering are both from within.

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