The best place to get help is from yourself.
EPICTETUSHe is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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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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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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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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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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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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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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