Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
EPICTETUSWe should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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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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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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It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous, even death is terrible only if we fear it.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
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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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It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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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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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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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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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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