A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
EPICTETUSSeek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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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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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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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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Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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