Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
EPICTETUSSuffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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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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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 world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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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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The best place to get help is from yourself.
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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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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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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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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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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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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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
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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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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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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 is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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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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Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
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