When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
EPICTETUSWe all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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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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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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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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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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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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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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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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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
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