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.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
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Only the educated are free.
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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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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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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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Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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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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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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