Ruin and recovering are both from within.
EPICTETUSWhen 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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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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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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Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with 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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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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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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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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