Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
EPICTETUSWe should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
More Epictetus Quotes
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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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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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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In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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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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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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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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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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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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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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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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