It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
EPICTETUSBy accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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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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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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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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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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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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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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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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Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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