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Epictetus Quote - You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.

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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Don’t demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.
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Acceptance Demand Expectation Happen Peace Possible
All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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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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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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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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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.
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Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
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Ears Giving Hear Nature Speak Tongue
You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
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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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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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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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