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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.

Epictetus

It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
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Body Cure Die Live Necessary Soul
Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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Control Hold Inspirational Positive Stop True
When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
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Acceptance Attitude Happen Ignorance Power
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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Attitude Control Death Fear Nature Terrible
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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Choice Consent Control Healing Hurt Inspirational
If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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Bad Believe Goodness Improvement One Liner
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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Death Depression Fear Love Pain
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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Attention Belong Business Concern Focus True
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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Breathe Conservation Eat God Preference Thinking
Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Believe Healing One Liner Recover Ruin
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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Believe Motivational Yourself
We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.
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Avoid Body Pralysis Soul Trouble
Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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Average Blame Character Foolish People Wise
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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Goals Influence Lie Life Please Purpose
People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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Disturb Human Nature Imagination People
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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Control Expectation Inspirational Life Value

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