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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.

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
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
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
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Beyong Cease Happiness Let Go Power Worry
Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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Appearance Done Goodness Inspirational Man Sake
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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Demand Happen Inspirational Satisfaction
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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Alone Appearance Impression Life People Strength
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Attitude Concern Human Nature People Thinking
You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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Control Happiness Inspirational Life Power Secret
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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Freedom Inspirational Let Go Life Live Sorrow
If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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Book Poet Reading Writing
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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Company Friendship Key People Presence
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Attitude Concern Human Nature People Thinking
Books are the training weights of the mind.
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Book Mind One Liner Training Weight
It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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Handle Happen Inspirational Matter Reaction
We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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Carry Focus Greatness Inspirational Need Seed
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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Body Goodness Heart Inspirational Look Soul

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