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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

Epictetus

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
By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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Acceptance Fight Freedom Life Limitation Work
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
We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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Character Control Effort Impression
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
Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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Effort Exercise Motivational One Liner Outcome Work Hard
If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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Book Poet Reading Writing
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
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
The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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Difficult Motivational Pilot Reputation Skill Storm
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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Character Determination Imagination Personality Role Model Yourself
Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Believe Beyond Control Freedom Happiness Win
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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Attention Character Giving Inspirational Ourselves
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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Acceptance Demand Expectation Happen Peace Possible
No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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Finding Healing Inspirational Person Yourself
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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Anxiety Imagination Man Problem Worry

The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

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