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.
EPICTETUSThe key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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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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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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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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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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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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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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