Don’t demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.
EPICTETUSNo matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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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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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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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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Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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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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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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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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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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I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
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