Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
EPICTETUSBooks are the training weights of the mind.
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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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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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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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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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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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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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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You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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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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If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
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