Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
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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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
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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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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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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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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.
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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
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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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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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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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