What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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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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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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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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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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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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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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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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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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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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Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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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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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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