If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
EPICTETUSKeep 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 key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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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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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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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
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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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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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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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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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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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