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In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.
EpictetusEpictetus The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
EpictetusEpictetus Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
EpictetusEpictetus Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
EpictetusEpictetus Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
EpictetusEpictetus Ruin and recovering are both from within.
EpictetusEpictetus People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
EpictetusEpictetus Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
EpictetusEpictetus First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
EpictetusEpictetus To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
EpictetusEpictetus Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
EpictetusEpictetus In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
EpictetusEpictetus I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
EpictetusEpictetus Do not try to seem wise to others.
EpictetusEpictetus Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
EpictetusEpictetus 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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