It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
EPICTETUSNo great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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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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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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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.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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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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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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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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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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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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In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
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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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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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