What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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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 should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
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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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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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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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It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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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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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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