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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.

Epictetus

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
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It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
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Aspire Extraordinary Inspirational Time Vague Wise
To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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Deed Inspirational Life Live Virtue
Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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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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It’s so simple really: If you say you’re going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
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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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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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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.
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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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Endure Introduce Life Opportunity Resource Strength
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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Angry Disturb Master Permit Person Yourself
Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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You become what you give your attention to. If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.
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Attention Choose Expose Giving Self Love Yourself
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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Carry Focus Greatness Inspirational Need Seed

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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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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