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.
EPICTETUSThe key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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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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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
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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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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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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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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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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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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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No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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