What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
EPICTETUSThe key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
More Epictetus Quotes
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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You become what you give your attention to. If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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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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Difficulty shows what men are.
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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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