Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
EPICTETUSThe world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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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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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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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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We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.
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