Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
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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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Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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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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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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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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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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