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.
EPICTETUSAuthentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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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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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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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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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 unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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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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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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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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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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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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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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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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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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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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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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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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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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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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Only the educated are free.
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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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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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