Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody 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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It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
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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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When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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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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Only the educated are free.
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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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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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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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