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Difficulty shows what men are.
EpictetusEpictetus By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
EpictetusEpictetus The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
EpictetusEpictetus Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
EpictetusEpictetus Only the educated are free.
EpictetusEpictetus 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.
EpictetusEpictetus The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
EpictetusEpictetus 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.
EpictetusEpictetus The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
EpictetusEpictetus We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
EpictetusEpictetus It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
EpictetusEpictetus Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
EpictetusEpictetus You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
EpictetusEpictetus 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.
EpictetusEpictetus The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
EpictetusEpictetus 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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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine I truly, truly believe that beauty is something that comes from within.
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Michael JacksonMichael Jackson God gave me this illness to remind me that I’m not Number One; He is.
Muhammad AliMuhammad Ali You tried, you failed, you believed & in the end you are an inspiration for the nation.
Sachin TendulkarSachin Tendulkar Those are shrines. Some people believe spirits live in them.
Hayao MiyazakiHayao Miyazaki They can because they think they can.
VirgilVirgil I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Thomas JeffersonThomas Jefferson