Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
EPICTETUSWe should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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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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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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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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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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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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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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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.
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