By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
EPICTETUSNo great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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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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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
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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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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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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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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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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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