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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.

Epictetus

If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
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Freedom Inspirational Let Go Life Live Sorrow
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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Behaviour Circumstance Expectation People Understand Wisdom
The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Going Man Philosophy Wisdom World
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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Business Finish Motivational Patience Start Success
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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Avoid Body Pralysis Soul Trouble
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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Impossible Learning Man Thinking
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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Goodness Learning Manner Speak
Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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Control Hold Inspirational Positive Stop True
Books are the training weights of the mind.
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Book Mind One Liner Training Weight
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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Goals Influence Lie Life Please Purpose
Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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Effort Exercise Motivational One Liner Outcome Work Hard
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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Anxiety Imagination Man Problem Worry
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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Concern Creation Giving Motivational Watch Work
No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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Finding Healing Inspirational Person Yourself
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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Attitude Insult Let Go Opinion Philosophy Strike
Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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Average Blame Character Foolish People Wise

He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.

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