Books are the training weights of the mind.
EPICTETUSThe greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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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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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’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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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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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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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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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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