If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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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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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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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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 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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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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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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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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