It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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.
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I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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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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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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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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We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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