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

Epictetus

Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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Harmony Inspirational Live Nature Rule
Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Believe Beyond Control Freedom Happiness Win
Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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Accident Achievement Improvement Inspirational Luck Progress
If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
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Defeat Fear Gain Seek Truth Victory
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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Company Friendship Key People Presence
Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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Desire Happiness Live One Liner Togetherness
It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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Deep Expectation People Reality Yourself
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
He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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Greedy Happiness Human Nature Life
It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
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Body Cure Die Live Necessary Soul
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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Attitude Control Death Fear Nature Terrible
We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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Event Judgement Life Live Suffering
You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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Control Happiness Inspirational Life Power Secret
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
Don’t be concerned with other people’s impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
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Alone Appearance Impression Life People Strength
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

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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