What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
EPICTETUSIt’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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In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.
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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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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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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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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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Only the educated are free.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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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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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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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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