When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
EPICTETUSDon’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
More Epictetus Quotes
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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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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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.
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If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
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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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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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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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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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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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In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.
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