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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.

Epictetus

To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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Deed Inspirational Life Live Virtue
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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Aspire Extraordinary Inspirational Time Vague Wise
We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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Event Judgement Life Live Suffering
It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
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Abundance Die Fear Hunger Live Trouble
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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Behaviour Circumstance Expectation People Understand Wisdom
Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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Moments Patience Reaction Situation Try Yourself
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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Consist Greatness Minimalism Possession Want Wealth
Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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Arise Control Neglect Power Suffering Try
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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Death Depression Fear Love Pain
It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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Deep Expectation People Reality Yourself
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
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
We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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Character Control Effort Impression
If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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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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Control Hold Inspirational Positive Stop True
In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
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Adversity Difficult Finding Friendship Prosperity

Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.

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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.

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