Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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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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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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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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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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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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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
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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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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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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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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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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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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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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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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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