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Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.

Epictetus

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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Consist Greatness Minimalism Possession Want Wealth
Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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Average Blame Character Foolish People Wise
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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Attitude Damage Laugh Live Thinking
Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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Consequences Fulfillment Happiness Positive
To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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Deed Inspirational Life Live Virtue
All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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Acceptance Heaven Life Man Religion Tolerance
The best place to get help is from yourself.
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Confidence Help Inspirational One Liner Place Yourself
Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Believe Beyond Control Freedom Happiness Win
It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
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Aspire Extraordinary Inspirational Time Vague Wise
If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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Book Poet Reading Writing
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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Goals Influence Lie Life Please Purpose
We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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Carry Focus Greatness Inspirational Need Seed
The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Going Man Philosophy Wisdom World
When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
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Angry Fault Forget Man Offend Study Yourself
By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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Acceptance Fight Freedom Life Limitation Work
When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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Attention Character Giving Inspirational Ourselves

Other 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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Other 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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