Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
EPICTETUSTentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
More Epictetus Quotes
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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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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It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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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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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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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.
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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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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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You become what you give your attention to. If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.
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