If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
EPICTETUSThe best place to get help is from yourself.
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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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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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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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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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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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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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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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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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