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 world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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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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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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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.
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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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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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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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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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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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