When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
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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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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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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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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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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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
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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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It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
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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.
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Don’t be concerned with other people’s impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
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Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
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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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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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