The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
EPICTETUSTentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
More Epictetus Quotes
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When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
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Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
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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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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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It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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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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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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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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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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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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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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