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.
EPICTETUSOther people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
More Epictetus Quotes
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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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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In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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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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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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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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