Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
EPICTETUSThe key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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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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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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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.
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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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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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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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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Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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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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