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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.

Epictetus

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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Content Fools Improvement Stupid Want
Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.
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Choice Consent Control Healing Hurt Inspirational
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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Breathe Conservation Eat God Preference Thinking
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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Attention Belong Business Concern Focus True
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
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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Concern Creation Giving Motivational Watch Work
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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Impossible Learning Man Thinking
We can’t control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
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Character Control Effort Impression
Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Believe Healing One Liner Recover Ruin
By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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Acceptance Fight Freedom Life Limitation Work
We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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Carry Focus Greatness Inspirational Need Seed
You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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Control Happiness Inspirational Life Power Secret
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
If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
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Defeat Fear Gain Seek Truth Victory
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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One Liner Philosophy Reality Sustain

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