Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
EPICTETUSOther people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
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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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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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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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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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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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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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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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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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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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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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