Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
EPICTETUSThere 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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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
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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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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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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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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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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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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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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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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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Don’t demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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