Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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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Don’t be concerned with other people’s impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
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We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.
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We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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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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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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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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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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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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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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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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