Books are the training weights of the mind.
EPICTETUSThe best place to get help is from yourself.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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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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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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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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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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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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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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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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I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
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It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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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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