No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
EPICTETUSDon’t demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.
More Epictetus Quotes
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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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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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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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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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
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Don’t be concerned with other people’s impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
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You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
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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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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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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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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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