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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.

Epictetus

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
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Attention Belong Business Concern Focus True
Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Believe Healing One Liner Recover Ruin
Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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Average Blame Character Foolish People Wise
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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Happen Hustle Motivational Philosophy Power Work Hard
We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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Character Control Effort Impression
If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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Bad Believe Goodness Improvement One Liner
People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.
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Disturb Human Nature Imagination People
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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Attention Choose Expose Giving Self Love Yourself
We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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Believe Confidence Faith Inspirational Time
Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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Circumstance Deep Himself Man Mask Reveal
All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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Acceptance Heaven Life Man Religion Tolerance
By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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Acceptance Fight Freedom Life Limitation Work
In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.
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Goals Influence Lie Life Please Purpose
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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Avoid Body Pralysis Soul Trouble
Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Control Freedom Goals Life Win Worth
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Attitude Concern Human Nature People Thinking

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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