Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
EPICTETUSThe best place to get help is from yourself.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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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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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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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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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see 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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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
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Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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