Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
EPICTETUSThe world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
More Epictetus Quotes
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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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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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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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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You become what you give your attention to. If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.
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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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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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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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