Ruin and recovering are both from within.
EPICTETUSThe more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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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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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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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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