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.
EPICTETUSDon’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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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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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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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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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
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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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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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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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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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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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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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