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.
EPICTETUSIt is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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Don’t demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.
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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
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It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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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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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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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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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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Only the educated are free.
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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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