It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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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Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
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You become what you give your attention to. If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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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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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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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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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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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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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
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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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