Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
EPICTETUSA ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
More Epictetus Quotes
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You become what you give your attention to. If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.
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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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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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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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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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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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If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
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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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