Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous, even death is terrible only if we fear it.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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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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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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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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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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You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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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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Every 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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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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