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.
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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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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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
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When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
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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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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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Only the educated are free.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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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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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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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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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
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