Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
EPICTETUSIt is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous, even death is terrible only if we fear it.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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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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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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Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.
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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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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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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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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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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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