When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
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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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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Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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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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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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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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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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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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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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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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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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If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
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No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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