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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.

Epictetus

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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Control Happiness Inspirational Life Power Secret
It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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Handle Happen Inspirational Matter Reaction
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
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Essense Happiness Inspirational Man Philosophy Possible
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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Content Fools Improvement Stupid Want
We 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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Carry Focus Greatness Inspirational Need Seed
Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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Accident Achievement Improvement Inspirational Luck Progress
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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Demand Happen Inspirational Satisfaction
Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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Appearance Done Goodness Inspirational Man Sake
To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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Deed Inspirational Life Live Virtue
If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
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Defeat Fear Gain Seek Truth Victory
Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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Desire Happiness Live One Liner Togetherness
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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Happen Hustle Motivational Philosophy Power Work Hard
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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Attitude Control Death Fear Nature Terrible
When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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Attention Character Giving Inspirational Ourselves
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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Aspiration People Regard Spiritual Superior Yourself
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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Avoid Body Pralysis Soul Trouble

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