The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
EPICTETUSYou 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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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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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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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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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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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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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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