Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
EPICTETUSMake the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
More Epictetus Quotes
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All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
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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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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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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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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
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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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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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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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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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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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Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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