Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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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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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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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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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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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Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.
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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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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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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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Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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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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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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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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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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