Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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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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He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
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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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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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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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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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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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