By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
EPICTETUSHappiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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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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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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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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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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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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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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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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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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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
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Only the educated are free.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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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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