The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
EPICTETUSCircumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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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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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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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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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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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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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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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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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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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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