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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.

Epictetus

Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
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Endure Introduce Life Opportunity Resource Strength
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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Attention Choose Expose Giving Self Love Yourself
When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
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Acceptance Attitude Happen Ignorance Power
Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Believe Healing One Liner Recover Ruin
Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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Breathe Conservation Eat God Preference Thinking
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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Goals Influence Lie Life Please Purpose
A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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Anchor Hope Inspirational Life Ride Ship
I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
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Attitude Damage Laugh Live Thinking
If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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Book Poet Reading Writing
Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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Average Blame Character Foolish People Wise
Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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Authentic Condition Happiness Independence Inspirational
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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Character Determination Imagination Personality Role Model Yourself
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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Concern Creation Giving Motivational Watch Work
Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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Important Philosophy Silence Speak Wisdom
Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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Consequences Fulfillment Happiness Positive
Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Believe Beyond Control Freedom Happiness Win

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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