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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.

Epictetus

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
Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Believe Healing One Liner Recover Ruin
Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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Abandonment Break Up Let Go Togetherness Worth
The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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Happiness Liberty Life People Right Truth
If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
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Freedom Inspirational Let Go Life Live Sorrow
When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
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Acceptance Attitude Happen Ignorance Power
If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
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Bad Believe Goodness Improvement One Liner
Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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Beginning Clear Freedom Happiness Principle Understand
Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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Arise Control Neglect Power Suffering Try
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
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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Beyong Cease Happiness Let Go Power Worry
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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Behaviour Circumstance Expectation People Understand Wisdom
In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.
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Goals Influence Lie Life Please Purpose
We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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Believe Confidence Faith Inspirational Time
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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Death Depression Fear Love Pain
Difficulty shows what men are.
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Character Difficult Men One Liner

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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