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.
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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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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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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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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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
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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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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
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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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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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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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