Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
EPICTETUSNo matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
More Epictetus Quotes
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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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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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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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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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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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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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Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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