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.
EPICTETUSRenew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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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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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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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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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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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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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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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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Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.
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