What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
EPICTETUSTentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
More Epictetus Quotes
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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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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You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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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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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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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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It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous, even death is terrible only if we fear it.
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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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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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Don’t demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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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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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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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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Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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