Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
EPICTETUSProgress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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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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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.
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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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It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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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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Difficulty shows what men are.
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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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