He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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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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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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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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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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It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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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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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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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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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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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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