By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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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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Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
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Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
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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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Difficulty shows what men are.
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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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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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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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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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