You become what you give your attention to. If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.
EPICTETUSIt is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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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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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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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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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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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.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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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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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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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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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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