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.
EPICTETUSThe best place to get help is from yourself.
More Epictetus Quotes
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It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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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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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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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
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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 matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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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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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
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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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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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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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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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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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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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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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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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