Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
EPICTETUSThe greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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Don’t be concerned with other people’s impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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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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If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
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Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
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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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We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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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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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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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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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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Don’t demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.
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I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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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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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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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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You become what you give your attention to. If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.
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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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