Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
EPICTETUSRuin and recovering are both from within.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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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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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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