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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

Epictetus

Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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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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Choice Consent Control Healing Hurt Inspirational
Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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Authentic Condition Happiness Independence Inspirational
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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Attitude Damage Laugh Live Thinking
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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Ears Giving Hear Nature Speak Tongue
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
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Beyong Cease Happiness Let Go Power Worry
Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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Anchor Hope Inspirational Life Ride Ship
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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Acceptance Demand Expectation Happen Peace Possible
It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
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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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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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Business Change Inspirational Strength Success Wisdom
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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Angry Fault Forget Man Offend Study Yourself
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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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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We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

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