When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
EPICTETUSThe best place to get help is from yourself.
More Epictetus Quotes
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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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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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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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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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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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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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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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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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Difficulty shows what men are.
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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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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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In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
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