Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
EPICTETUSThe best place to get help is from yourself.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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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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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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You become what you give your attention to. If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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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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Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.
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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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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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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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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
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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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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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