Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
EPICTETUSYou 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.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
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Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
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Only the educated are free.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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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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You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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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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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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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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