The best place to get help is from yourself.
EPICTETUSBy accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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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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Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.
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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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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
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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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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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Only the educated are free.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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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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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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