Don’t demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.
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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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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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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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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Only the educated are free.
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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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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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