Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
EPICTETUSYou 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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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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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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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
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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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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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