By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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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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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
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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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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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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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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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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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