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Epictetus Quote - If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.

If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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Deed Inspirational Life Live Virtue
Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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Abandonment Break Up Let Go Togetherness Worth
Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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Average Blame Character Foolish People Wise
All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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Acceptance Heaven Life Man Religion Tolerance
Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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Accident Achievement Improvement Inspirational Luck Progress
The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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Difficult Motivational Pilot Reputation Skill Storm
Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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Beginning Clear Freedom Happiness Principle Understand
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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Aspire Extraordinary Inspirational Time Vague Wise
Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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Desire Happiness Live One Liner Togetherness
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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Death Depression Fear Love Pain
Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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Harmony Inspirational Live Nature Rule
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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Control Happiness Inspirational Life Power Secret
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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Angry Disturb Master Permit Person Yourself
Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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Freedom Inspirational Live Right Satisfaction
We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.
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Avoid Body Pralysis Soul Trouble
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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Evil Laugh Speak True Yourself
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
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Beyong Cease Happiness Let Go Power Worry
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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Aspiration People Regard Spiritual Superior Yourself
When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
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Angry Fault Forget Man Offend Study Yourself
Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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Business Change Inspirational Strength Success Wisdom
Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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Arise Control Neglect Power Suffering Try
Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Control Freedom Goals Life Win Worth
Books are the training weights of the mind.
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Book Mind One Liner Training Weight
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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Freedom Inspirational Let Go Life Live Sorrow
Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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Explanation Express Philosophy
The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Going Man Philosophy Wisdom World
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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Character Determination Imagination Personality Role Model Yourself

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