The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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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You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
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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 greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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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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If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
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Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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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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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
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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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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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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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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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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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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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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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