It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
EPICTETUSAuthentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
More Epictetus Quotes
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I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
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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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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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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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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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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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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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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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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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