Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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.
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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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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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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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It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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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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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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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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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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No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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