Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
EPICTETUSDon’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
More Epictetus Quotes
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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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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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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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 should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
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When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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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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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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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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Only the educated are free.
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