There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
EPICTETUSAny person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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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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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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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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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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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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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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Do not try to seem wise to others.
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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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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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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.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
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