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.
EPICTETUSTentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.
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No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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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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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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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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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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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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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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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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If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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