You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
EPICTETUSEvery difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
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Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.
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Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
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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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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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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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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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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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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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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
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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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