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.
EPICTETUSGive me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
More Epictetus Quotes
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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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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Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
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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.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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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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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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