Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
EPICTETUSA ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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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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It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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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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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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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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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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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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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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