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.
EPICTETUSTentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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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 want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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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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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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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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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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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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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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