Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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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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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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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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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
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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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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous, even death is terrible only if we fear it.
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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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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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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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