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

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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We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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Character Control Effort Impression
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
People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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Disturb Human Nature Imagination People
It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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Handle Happen Inspirational Matter Reaction
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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Body Goodness Heart Inspirational Look Soul
Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Believe Beyond Control Freedom Happiness Win
Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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Account Giving Inspirational Life Positive
If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
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Defeat Fear Gain Seek Truth Victory
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
He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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Greedy Happiness Human Nature Life
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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Company Friendship Key People Presence
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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Endure Introduce Life Opportunity Resource Strength
Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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Goodness Inspirational Life Seek Wisdom Yourself
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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Control Happiness Inspirational Life Power Secret
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
If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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Book Poet Reading Writing
When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
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Acceptance Attitude Happen Ignorance Power
Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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Explanation Express Philosophy
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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Anxiety Imagination Man Problem Worry
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.
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Acceptance Demand Expectation Happen Peace Possible
Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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Control Hold Inspirational Positive Stop True
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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Goodness Learning Manner Speak
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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Control Expectation Inspirational Life Value
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Attitude Concern Human Nature People Thinking
If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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Bad Believe Goodness Improvement One Liner
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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Breathe Conservation Eat God Preference Thinking
We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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Believe Confidence Faith Inspirational Time

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